We can’t tell if Cate Blanchett is joking or not (Picture: 10/Getty)
Cate Blanchett has hinted that after making her recent film Tár, retirement is looking rather tempting.
Although Cate is favourite to take home another Oscar in March – of which she already has two – it looks as though the Blue Jasmine star might be tempted to hit the brakes.
After winning a Golden Globe for her role as brutal but talented composer Lydia Tár in Todd Fields’ drama, the 53-year-old has admitted to never wanting to act again.
The Hollywood star explained that the physical and emotional aspects of filming Tár have taken their toll, and she needs to ‘process it’.
In the interview on The Sunday Project, Cate said: ‘I think it was because it was such a physical role, the echoes of it are still with me and I think I’m like a lot of audience members, I need time to process it.
‘Obviously I’m lucky enough to work with some amazing directors who have changed my life, but when it all comes together like that, it does stay with you.’
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Cate’s character in Tár was quite controversial (Picture: Courtesy of Florian Hoffmeister)
With a chuckle, she continued: ‘And so I don’t ever want to work again.’
We can’t tell quite how serious the Australian is, but now that she lives in the US Cate went on to admit she was ‘profoundly homesick’.
Cate then joked that there are ‘millions of people around the world applauding right now’ after hearing about her retirement plans.
The Hollywood megastar, who did not attend the Globes to receive her award due to work commitments, also won a Critics’ Choice Award just days later.
In her acceptance speech, the Lord of the Rings icon called out awards shows for their ‘patriarchal’ structure, as she told the audience: ‘It’s like, what is this patriarchal pyramid where someone stands up here?’
This awards season has been a very successful one for Cate (Picture: Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic)
‘Why don’t we just say there’s a whole raft of female performances that are in concert and in dialogue with one another, and stop the televised horse race of it at all?’
This comes after leading conductor Marin Alsop criticised Tár as being ‘anti-women’ because of Cate’s toxic bully of a character Lydia, to which the star responded that the film was ‘a mediation on power and power is genderless’.
Since the film’s release, Cate has also talked about her own early experiences of bullying in the acting world, which she claims actually made her ‘stronger’.
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In an interview with The Times, she said: ‘Early on in my career I would sometimes be treated brutally by a director in the rehearsal room.
‘Yet I ended up making a massive breakthrough because of it. To be frank, I wouldn’t be here now if that sort of thing hadn’t happened.’
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We can’t tell if she’s joking.
