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| March 3, 2007 |
| Cate Blanchett |
I'M WAITING FOR Cate Blanchett in a café in Balmain, a Sydney Harbour peninsula dotted with 19th-century cottages, close to the neighbourhood where she lives with her husband and two sons. Blanchett enters stage right, in jeans, flats and a leather flying jacket over a khaki blouse with a granddad collar. She is 5ft 8in, but appears taller. She shakes my hand heartily and flops down in her seat.
For women, Cate Blanchett is the blonde-joke antidote, happy to discuss her work but unwilling to use her personal life as interview fodder. Tabloids are
part of her world, yet she's avoided their glare. 'I don't read them,' she says. 'There is some terrible statistic that the average person only reads 300 books in their lifetime — with two children, even that seems unattainable. So why waste your time on tabloids? In order to switch off, I suppose, but I find ways other than processing junk to do that — like sleep.'
Statements like the above do much to fuel the view of Blanchett as just a little too earnest and serious for her own good; she's an actress whom George Clooney described as 'intimidating' before they first met. True, she is serious about acting and issues close to her heart, such as the environment, but, in the flesh, Blanchett is much warmer than you imagine. 'You have to let certain things go,' says Blanchett of juggling parenthood and career, 'and grooming seems to be the first one. It just means getting two hours' less sleep. The parent-teacher night, the theatre, dinner, jetlagged kids and emails waiting at home – it's going to be 1am before I get round to grooming. But I'm aware this problem isn't particular to me – and that I'm in a very privileged position.' |
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