Cate Blanchett Considers Acting Retirement

Celebrated Australian actress Cate Blanchett says she is seriously thinking of giving up acting. Now 55, she is about to star in her first radio drama in BBC Radio 4’s “The Fever” and tells the Radio Times (via The Standard):

“My family roll their eyes every time I say it, but I mean it. I am serious about giving up acting. (There are) a lot of things I want to do with my life.”

Blanchett most recently starred in Soderbergh’s spy thriller “Black Bag,” which is the best reviewed wide release of the year so far on Metacritic. She has won two Oscars for her work in “The Aviator” and “Blue Jasmine”.

She says she’s still not comfortable with being a celebrity, saying it has “been a long time to remotely get comfortable with the idea of being photographed.” She adds:

“I’ve always felt like I’m on the periphery of things, so I’m always surprised when I belong anywhere. I go with curiosity into whatever environment that I’m in, not expecting to be accepted or welcomed. I’ve spent a lifetime getting comfortable with the feeling of being uncomfortable.”

The Melbourne-born NIDA graduate began acting on stage in 1992 playing opposite Geoffrey Rush in the David Mamet play “Oleanna”. Her screen work began with the 1994 mini-series “Heartland” and her first films were Bruce Beresford’s “Paradise Road,” Gillian Armstrong’s “Oscar and Lucinda” and the rom-com “Thank God He Met Lizzie”.

She really broke through playing Elizabeth I in Shekhar Kapur’s “Elizabeth” in 1998 which landed her an Oscar nomination. That led to a career spanning films like “The Lord of the Rings” and “The Hobbit” trilogies, “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” “The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou,” “I’m Not There,” “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,” “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” “Hanna,” “Carol,” “Don’t Look Up,” “Ocean’s 8,” “The Jungl Book,” “Nightmare Alley,” and “Tar”.

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