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As Cate blanchett with Radio Times The experienced actress at fans and film lovers around the world caused astonishment for their latest edition. Because she revealed her very serious intentions to withdraw from the canvas.
“My family rolls with my eyes every time I say that, but I am serious. I plan to stop acting,” said the 55-year-old icon. And added that there are “many things I want to start with my life”.
For those who have difficulty their favorite moment in Cate canon It is due to the fact that your work is extensive in large cinema films, in the arthouse area and on stage. An excerpt from her resume includes Oscar-winning appearances as tragic and neurotic heroine in Blue Jasmine and in the biographical epic staged by Martin Scorsese The Aviator. To her extensive theater work, ranging from Shakespeare to Czechow to Tennessee Williams and beyond.
“I always had the feeling that I was on the edge of things”
So if it becomes known that such a productive and versatile actress thinks of finally stopping, you need a moment to breathe back. The actress called no concrete reason for her decision. However, noted that she doesn’t like it when words are torn out of context and she is photographed. “If you go to a talk show or are now here and then see O tones of things that you said, torn out and print it italics, they sound really loud. I’m not such a person,” said Blanchett of the magazine. “It took a long time before I thought about being photographed.”
She continued: “I always had the feeling that I was on the edge of things. So I’m always surprised when I belong somewhere. I go to every environment with curiosity in which I am. And I don’t expect to be accepted or welcome. I have spent a lifetime to make myself uncomfortable.”
Dear theater?
However, her passion for the theater is still great. When she talked about cold showering, Blanchett said that this is “maybe the only time of the day, apart from the time on the stage in which I really – and that is terrible – is really present”.
“You have to have this kind of sound, like a submarine, in terms of the quality of the listening and the presence,” she said. “Theater lives or dies based on the connection to the audience and listening to how they react. You have to try to take them with you, and also the ensemble with which you work with. This listening is so intense. I really have to concentrate on bringing the same quality of listening to my life.”
Blanchett recently played next to Michael Fassbender in the spy drama Black Bag. In a review of the film in Rolling Stone the electrifying representation of love and espionage was praised in the thriller. Which of course is largely due to the talent of the actors.