Cate Blanchett is 'serious' about potentially retiring from acting
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Cate Blanchett is opening up about retiring from acting — a move the two-time Oscar winner is “seriously” considering.
The “Black Bag” star, 55, revealed in a new interview that she’s genuinely contemplating taking her final bow after more than 30 years in the business.
“My family roll their eyes every time I say it, but I mean it. I am serious about giving up acting,” Blanchett told UK outlet The Standard in an interview published Tuesday. “(There are) a lot of things I want to do with my life.”
Blanchett said she’s “not that person” seen on talk shows or in interviews.
“You see soundbites of things you’ve said, pulled out and italicized. … I make more sense in motion,” the “Lord of the Rings” star explained. “It’s been a long time to remotely get comfortable with the idea of being photographed.”
Blanchett admitted she’s “always felt like I’m on the periphery of things” and as a result, is “always surprised when I belong anywhere. … I’ve spent a lifetime getting comfortable with the feeling of being uncomfortable.”
After making her screen debut in 1990’s “Kaboria,” credited as Blonde Cheerleader, Blanchett first took to the stage two years later at the National Institute of Dramatic Art, in her native Australia.
By the end of the decade, the statuesque star was in a different stratosphere, having earned her first Academy Award nomination for her 1998 portrayal of a young Elizabeth I — a role that, a decade later, earned Blanchett yet another nod for “Elizabeth: The Golden Age.”
Blanchett has been nominated for eight Oscars, most recently in 2023 for playing a composer-conductor on the wrong end of cancel culture in “Tár.” She’s won two Oscars to date, for Martin Scorsese’s “The Aviator” and Woody Allen’s “Blue Jasmine.”
Blanchett’s impressive career also extends to blockbusters — the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the “Lord of the Rings” and “Hobbit” films, the “How to Train Your Dragon” franchise — and television. She recently starred in Alfonso Cuarón’s Apple TV+ thriller, “Disclaimer.”
According to Blanchett’s IMDb, she has two projects on the horizon, the star-studded sci-flick “Alpha Gang,” which is currently in production, and Jim Jarmusch’s “Father, Mother, Sister, Brother.” The latter is slated for later this year.
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