Cate Blanchett debuted her latest acting role in “The New Boy” at the Cannes Film Festival this week, but the Oscar-winner wouldn’t mind staying behind the camera a bit more.
“I’m always trying to get out of acting,” Blanchett said. “I’ve been trying to stop acting my entire professional life.”
Speaking at her Kering Women in Motion talk at Cannes, in conversation with her producing partner, Coco Francini, Blanchett said that her recent producing work behind the camera “feels an extension, for me, of my work as an actor.”
“I remember an Australian film director saying to me really early on in my career that I