- LOS ANGELES — With a career spanning over three decades and two Oscar
honours, actress Cate Blanchett said she is “serious” about stepping away from
her craft one day.
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- She said during a new interview with the UK’s Radio Times
magazine, where the actress is promoting her forthcoming and first-ever
audioplay, BBC Radio 4’s The Fever, reports deadline.com.
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- While introducing herself for the tape, she hesitated to
announce her title as actress, which co-director John Tiffany pointed out.
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- She replied, “I did, didn’t I? It’s because I’m giving
up.”
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- The star clarified, “My family roll their eyes every time
I say it, but I mean it. I am serious about giving up acting.”
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- She added that there are “a lot of things I want to do
with my life.”
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- Speaking to her experience of celebrity, she said that
she doesn’t love the interview process,
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- “No one is more boring to me than myself and I find other
people much more interesting. I find myself profoundly dull … 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. I’m not that person.”
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- Most recently, Blanchett wrapped her 6-week limited
engagement of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull in London’s Barbican Theatre, which
is currently eyeing a 2026 Broadway run.
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- Next up, she will appear in the star-studded alien
invasion comedy Alpha Gang, from the Zellner brothers, which she is also
producing, as well as previous colleague Jim Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister
Brother, a triptych feature film. Her latest movie, The New Boy, which is set
for a May 23 theatrical release.
