Cate Blanchett could be leaving Hollywood sooner fairly than later.
The “Black Bag” actress, 55, mentioned her subsequent profession strikes in an interview with Radio Occasions set to be launched on Sunday, April 20. She insisted she is “serious” about leaving appearing behind as a result of there are “a lot of things” she would fairly give attention to after her greater than 30-year profession within the enterprise.
“My family roll their eyes every time I say it, but I mean it,” Blanchett mentioned, per The Customary. “I am serious about giving up acting. [There are] a lot of things I want to do with my life.”
Blanchett has been married to her husband, Australian playwright and screenwriter Andrew Upton, 59, since 1997. The couple share three sons, Dashiell, Roman and Ignatius, and one daughter, Edith.
Whereas the “Lord of the Rings” actress has earned two Oscars and has been nominated for six extra, she revealed that she just isn’t loopy about being a celeb and all the elements that being well-known entails.
“When you go on a talk show, or even here now, and then you see soundbites of things you’ve said, pulled out and italicized, they sound really loud,” Blanchett defined. “I’m not that person.”
“I make more sense in motion,” the “Blue Jasmine” actress continued. “It’s been a long time to remotely get comfortable with the idea of being photographed. I’ve always felt like I’m on the periphery of things, so I’m always surprised when I belong anywhere. I go with curiosity into whatever environment that I’m in, not expecting to be accepted or welcomed.”
“I’ve spent a lifetime getting comfortable with the feeling of being uncomfortable,” she added.
Though Blanchett didn’t say precisely when she plans to “give up acting,” it will not be the primary time that she hinted on the risk.
In March, throughout an interview with The Guardian, the “I’m Not There” actress shared related remarks about leaving Hollywood within the rearview mirror.
“I always thought, if the acting thing didn’t work out, which it still might not, I would love to be a Foley artist,” she mentioned final month. “One day, I’m going to grow up and get a proper job.”
She additionally addressed the shift away from ageism and sexism in Hollywood and the way “the shelf life of actresses when I first came on the scene was about five years.”
“I think that female producers have more agency,” Blanchett advised Enterprise Insider on March 24. “There’s more females in the writing room, and the more diverse the industry is at base level, when things are developed, the more exciting it is for audiences.”
“I think there’s ageism and sexism in every industry,” she added. “I just think that we’re a very public-facing industry.”
