{"id":2423203,"date":"2026-05-19T12:16:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T12:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2423203"},"modified":"2026-05-19T12:16:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T12:16:38","slug":"cate-blanchett-aussie-film-star-reveals-oscar-winning-director-once-labelled-her-acting-s-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/cate-blanchett-aussie-film-star-reveals-oscar-winning-director-once-labelled-her-acting-s-t\/","title":{"rendered":"Cate Blanchett: Aussie film star reveals Oscar-winning director once labelled her acting \u2018s..t\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Academy-award winning film star and respected Hollywood figure Cate Blanchett has revealed her acting was once labelled \u201cs..t\u201d by an A-list Hollywood director.<\/p>\n

The actor 57, spoke candidly in an interview at Cannes Film Festival about the Displacement Film Fund she co-founded, which was established to champion displaced filmmakers, and offered insights into her storied acting career.<\/p>\n

Recalling a prickly moment on set in 2006 shooting critically acclaimed film Babel, Blanchett said her craft was questioned by Mexican director Alejandro Gonz\u00e1lez I\u00f1\u00e1rritu in one of her first scenes on the production.<\/p>\n

By that point, she had already won a best supporting actress Oscar for her role as legendary actress Katharine Hepburn in The Aviator two years prior.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy son had an accident in Morocco, so I was quite traumatised anyway. So maybe that was art imitating life. I remember the first day we shot, Brad Pitt and I shot a scene, and we did a couple of takes, and I\u00f1\u00e1rritu came up and said, \u2018This is s..t. What is this s..t?\u2019\u201d Blanchett said, as reported by news.com.au.<\/p>\n

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Camera Icon<\/title><\/svg>Aussie star Cate Blanchett.<\/span> Credit: AAP<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cHe said, \u2018There\u2019s nothing here. This scene has to work or the movie doesn\u2019t work,\u2019 and walked off.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut that knocks you off your centre. It\u2019s a form of direction. Some say, \u2018That\u2019s incredibly disrespectful,\u2019 or \u2018That\u2019s upsetting to me.\u2019 But sometimes a director can lead with love, but incredibly tough love.\u201d<\/p>\n

Blanchett was then probed to comment on a glance she offers in the film\u2019s final scene, and pondered if \u201cmaybe that look was also just me frightened that I\u00f1\u00e1rritu was gonna come in and say, \u2018It\u2019s s..t\u2019 to me again\u201d.<\/p>\n

I\u00f1\u00e1rritu was nominated for an Oscar for directing following his work in Babel.<\/p>\n

He later won in consecutive years for Birdman (2015) and The Revenant (2016).<\/p>\n

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Camera Icon<\/title><\/svg>Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, winner of the director of the year award for “Birdman” poses in the press room at the 26th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala on Saturday, Jan. 3, 2015, in Palm Springs, Calif. (Photo by Jordan Strauss\/Invision\/AP)<\/span> Credit: Jordan Strauss\/<\/span>Jordan Strauss\/Invision\/AP<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the wide-ranging interview, Blanchett said she\u2019s no longer able to attack roles with the same physical vigour as she once did.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs you get older, the palette that you\u2019re playing upon gets perhaps more calcified and less malleable, so there\u2019s a lot of stuff you cannot do,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI used to be able to tap dance. I can\u2019t really tap dance anymore. The sad thing is I\u2019ve got a facility for learning things quickly, but then I have a sort of physical dementia and I forget it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Blue Jasmine actress also lamented the apparent phasing out of the #MeToo movement, claiming it got \u201cgetting killed very quickly\u201d in Hollywood.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are a lot of people with platforms who are able to speak up with relative safety and say \u2018this has happened to me\u2019. And the so-called average woman on the street, person on the street, is saying me too. Why does that get shut down?\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.perthnow.com.au \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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