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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Entertainment
Susan Chenery

‘Stop telling people it’s weird’: Andrew Upton on his strange new novel, and having Cate Blanchett read it first

Andrew Upton in a waxed jacket and knit sweater stands outdoors framed by green foliage in soft focus
Andrew Upton in East Sussex, where he lives with his wife Cate Blanchett – who read his debut novel Krank Fuss ‘as soon as it is turned out’. Photograph: Linda Nylind/The Guardian

Andrew Upton is full of half-finished stories and plays. Usually they just sort of evaporate, he says. “I look back now and think, ‘What on earth did I find interesting about that?’”

An idea has to be really quite seductive to compete with “my other life, my main life” with his wife, Cate Blanchett, their four children and their film company, Dirty Films.

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