Cate Blanchett has a long and illustrious career to her name across stage and screen.
But the 55-year-old, two-time Oscar-winner (and eight-time nominee!) has said her acting days are numbered.
In a new interview, the Australian actor and producer reveals the thought of giving up the game is something she’s serious about, even if her family don’t believe her.
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After introducing herself hesitantly as an “actress”, Blanchett admitted to theatre director John Tiffany there was a reason behind her pause.
“It’s because I’m giving up,” she said to UK’s Radio Times.
“My family roll their eyes every time I say it, but I mean it.”
Blanchett says she’s “serious about giving up acting” because there are “a lot of things I want to do with my life”.
While the mum-of-four doesn’t reveal what those other things are, she gives fans an insight into why she’s thinking of calling it quits.
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“It’s been a long time to remotely get comfortable with the idea of being photographed,” Blanchett, the face of Armani and Louis Vuitton, admitted.
Adding later: “Like a lot of people, I like being alive. I throw myself into life, often in unwanted places. Maybe that’s why my career, if you call it a career, has been so strangely eclectic.”
But it seems it’ll still be some time yet before the proverbial sun sets on Blanchett’s career.
The actress just wrapped up a London production of Anton Chekhov’s play The Seagull, and has been announced in her first major BBC Radio drama, The Fever.
She’s also just released the spy thriller Black Bag and will have Father, Mother, Sister, Brother, also staring Adam Driver, coming out later this year.
Blanchett also has the movie Alpha Gang in production, which she not only stars in alongside Channing Tatum, Zoe Kravitz, Dave Bautista, Lea Seydoux and Riley Keogh but is also a producer on.
It’s not Blanchett’s first turn on the producing side of things.
Among dozens of such roles, the star recently served as executive producer alongside director Alfonso Cuarón in the seven-part mini-series Disclaimer.
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The role earned her a slew of nominations during awards season but the 55-year-old said she didn’t approach the job differently to usual.
”Whether I’m involved in something as a producer or not – I was an exec producer and, I think, really a sounding board for Afonso, it’s totally his vision – I’m interested in the whole piece,” Blanchett told 9honey Celebrity on the red carpet last year.
“Whether I die on page nine or on page 99 or don’t die at all, I’m interested in the whole process from development through to when it hits the audience.”
So it appears – for now at least – there’s plenty to keep Blanchett going in the world of acting but we’ll have to wait and see how much longer that continues for.
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