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Cate Blanchett Says She Is “Serious About Giving Up Acting” One Day: “I Mean It”
Cate Blanchett said she is 'serious' about stepping away from her craft, after a more than three-decade-long career and two Academy Awards.
The adaptation of Wallace Shawn’s drama features a 90-minute monologue from an unnamed woman who travels to a civil war-torn country and becomes ill, realizing that her material comforts and privileges are bankrolled by oppression spurred by global capitalism. Speaking to her experience of celebrity, she remarked that she doesn’t love the interview process: “No one is more boring to me than myself and I find other people much more interesting. Most recently, Blanchett wrapped her 6-week limited engagement of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull in London’s Barbican Theatre, which is currently eyeing a 2026 Broadway run.
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