Cate Blanchett : her trailblazing career & the power of reinvention #Porter
She’s fabulous and so is the fashion !
‘As she prepares for her highly anticipated return to the London stage in Chekhov’s The Seagull, the chameleonic CATE BLANCHETT talks to KATIE BERRINGTON about her new spy thriller, Black Bag, her trailblazing career, life away from the spotlight, and the power of reinvention’..from Porter magazine .
“And then I started to re-wear things I hadn’t worn for a long time; things that I inherited from my mother and my grandmother,” she says. The color-coded system helps her to get dressed, particularly “on days when you’re preoccupied or you haven’t slept or you still haven’t shed the dream or the nightmare. And you just think, ‘I’m going to go naked today. It would be easier, more truthful’,” she chuckles
“I’m a jack of all trades and, I think, master of absolutely nothing!” she quips. “You spend your life dipping in and out of all of these character circumstances and skill sets, and then they dribble away as soon as you finish the job.”
“But then so much falls through the cracks. I’d be a terrible spy. I can’t remember anything! I can’t hold anything up here unfortunately,” she says, tapping a finger on her temple”
“The demands of my LIFE away from working are deep and PRESENT and very fulfilling – but, WHEN I step off, I’m in a completely different reality”
“No matter what INDUSTRY you work in, it’s hard to know where to place one’s ENERGY at the moment… There’s so much that is bewildering and heartbreaking and enraging about the SITUATION we find ourselves in”
“Everyone talks about the #MeToo movement as if it’s well and truly over, and I think, well, it didn’t really ever take root, to be honest. People were seeking to dismantle and discredit those voices that were only just beginning to come out from under the floorboards into the light. I find it quite distressing the way that it hasn’t taken root”
“ The wonderful thing when you’re starting out is that no one has any expectations of you. You haven’t left a breadcrumb trail of things that you’ve done before, there’s no narrative about you at all. And so you’re freer to become or be anything. For better or for worse, the more you do, you have to work a bit harder to break apart any preconceptions. But people will think what they think, and I suppose, over the years, you do develop a thicker skin – but you then have to make sure it doesn’t mean you can’t slash that”
Listen to this fabulous podcast where Bella Freud interviews Cate Blanchett.
