Cate Blanchett: Serious About Leaving Acting Behind
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Synopsis
In a candid interview, Cate Blanchett reveals her serious intentions to step away from acting. With a rich career and two Oscars, she explores new avenues in life while discussing her latest audioplay and upcoming projects.
Key Takeaways
- Cate Blanchett is contemplating retirement from acting.
- She is promoting her first audioplay, The Fever.
- Blanchett finds interviews uninteresting.
- Upcoming projects include Alpha Gang and The New Boy.
- She recently performed in The Seagull in London.
Los Angeles, April 15 (NationPress) With a career that has spanned over three decades and earned her two Oscar awards, actress Cate Blanchett expressed that she is “serious” about potentially stepping away from her profession at some point.
During a recent interview with the UK's Radio Times magazine, where she is promoting her upcoming and first-ever audioplay, BBC Radio 4’s The Fever, reports deadline.com.
When introducing herself for the recording, she hesitated to declare her title as an actress, which co-director John Tiffany noted.
She responded, “I did, didn’t I? It’s because I’m giving up.”
The star elaborated, “My family rolls their eyes every time I mention it, but I genuinely mean it. I am serious about giving up acting.”
She mentioned that there are “many things I wish to pursue in my life.”
Discussing her experiences with fame, she admitted that she does not enjoy the interview process, stating, “No one is more boring to me than myself, and I find others far more captivating. I consider myself profoundly dull … When you participate in a talk show, or even now, and then hear soundbites of what you’ve said, they sound overly pronounced. I’m not that person.”
Recently, Blanchett completed a six-week limited engagement of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull at London’s Barbican Theatre, which is currently eyeing a 2026 Broadway run.
Next, she will be featured in the star-studded alien invasion comedy Alpha Gang, produced by the Zellner brothers, as well as in Jim Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Brother, a triptych film. Her latest film, The New Boy, is set for theatrical release on May 23.
Regarding The Fever, it is an adaptation of Wallace Shawn’s drama, featuring a 90-minute monologue from an unnamed woman who travels to a war-torn country and becomes ill, realizing that her material comforts and privileges are funded by oppression driven by global capitalism.
