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Cate Blanchett Covers Vanity Fair 
Wed, Jan 7
Cate Blanchett’s latest film role as Brad Pitt’s soulmate in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, has the 39-year-old Academy Award winner focused on aging and death which she thinks is a “great” change: “We’ve enshrined the purity, sanctity, value, and importance of bringing children into the world, yet we don’t discuss death.” Cate discusses [...]
Cate Blanchett’s latest film role as Brad Pitt’s soulmate in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, has the 39-year-old Academy Award winner focused on aging and death which she thinks is a “great” change: “We’ve enshrined the purity, sanctity, value, and importance of bringing children into the world, yet we don’t discuss death.” Cate discusses death, motherhood to her 3 boys (Dashiell, 7, Roman, 4, and Ignatius, 8 months), marriage and more in the latest edition of Vanity Fair.
On having more babies: “Who knows? Don’t close those doors. The world is very overpopulated, but we do make nice ones. They all look like Andrew. To say he has dominant genes would be an understatement.”
On her husband, Andrew Upton: “[Andrew is] the strongest man I know. He’s got a very strong sense of self. He’s married to a woman who, at the moment, is in a noisy phase in her career. But he’s also been with me when it’s not that noisy, and he knows there’s not a lot of difference in me, or in us. I’m incredibly lucky to be with someone like that. Because my face is more recognized than his, there’s a reverse sexism; somehow his career path is seen as more dispensable, less important. That’s just garbage. I have deep respect for what he does, and likewise. If I was a theater actor, it wouldn’t be an issue.”
On accepting Andrew’s marriage proposal just weeks after they met: “We were in exactly the same place at exactly the same time. He turned to me after a few days and said, ‘Cate … ,’ and I thought, Oh, god, he’s going to ask me to marry him—and I’m going to have to say yes! He didn’t, in fact; he asked me what I wanted for dinner or something like that. But I’d never had that thought before. I thought, This is extraordinary! I’ve never felt this before. What an adventure! It was a leap, but I wasn’t leaping by myself. It was a leap into the future.”
On how she and Andrew juggle life with 3 young sons: “We don’t mind a bit of chaos. As your life becomes more populated with little people, you have to adapt, but I’ve never been frightened of change.”
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