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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
Entertainment
Emily St. Martin

Cate Blanchett likens her acting career to a ‘love affair’ that might be over

Cate Blanchett is thinking about breaking up with acting — again.

The actor, who’s Oscar-nominated for lead actress for her acclaimed performance in “Tár,” has been in the throes of an on-again, off-again romance with acting for more than 30 years. Now the Oscar nominee is reiterating sentiments she has shared before, and it may be the final curtain call for her acting career.

“It’s not occasional — it’s continual,” Blanchett said of her desire to quit acting in a Vanity Fair interview published Monday. “On a daily or weekly basis, for sure. It’s a love affair, isn’t it? So you do fall in and out of love with it, and you have to be seduced back into it.”

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