Cate Blanchett announces she is taking a break from acting
Oscar hopeful Cate Blanchett has revealed she’s stepping away from the camera after her gruelling performance in Tar. See why.
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Cate Blanchett is taking a break from acting after her demanding role in Tar, which landed her an Oscar nomination for best actress.
After the role of the obsessive Lydia Tar left Blanchett drained, homesick and on the edge of quitting acting, the Australian star decided to listen to Tar director Todd Field and step away from the camera.
“He said ‘don’t work for a while,’ and I probably should have taken the advice,” Blanchett told Vanity Fair, admitting she didn’t listen and went straight back to work on Alfonso Cuarón’s thriller, “Disclaimer”.
“You have to answer that call,” she said of working with Cuarón on the Apple TV series.
Since then, however, the 53-year-old has turned her attention to Australia after years of working around the globe.
“I just said no to a couple of things. I think it’s time to be quiet,” she added in the Vanity Fair cover story to promote Tar’s Oscar campaign.
The film is up for six awards, including directing, cinematography, film editing, and original screenplay, at the March 13 ceremony.
If she wins, it would be her third Oscar after winning best actress for Blue Jasmine in 2014, and best supporting actress for The Aviator in 2005.
Despite the accolades, Blanchett said she has a persistent feeling of wanting to quit acting altogether.
“It’s not occasional — it’s continual,” Blanchett said.
“On a daily or weekly basis, for sure. It’s a love affair, isn’t it? So you do fall in and out of love with it, and you have to be seduced back into it.”
Blanchett is an Oscar favourite for her performance as a narcissist orchestra conductor in Tar, which has already won major award season accolades including a Golden Globe and the critics’ awards trifecta of Los Angeles, New York and the National Society of Film Critics.
“I found Tár the most all-consuming, confronting, joyous, life-affirming endeavour that I’ve ever been involved in,” Blanchett said.
“I don’t know what exactly it is, but I know it’s something. So I want people to tell me what it is because I’m still figuring it out for myself.”
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