Cate Blanchett quits. Really bad timing

Hollywood’s Australian superstar, 55, has had it up to here. She tells Radio Times: ‘My family roll their eyes every time I say it, but I mean it. I am serious about giving up acting… [there are] a lot of things I want to do with my life.’

Wikipedia has promptly adjusted her entry to ‘retired actor’.

Which is just about the worst timing since she raised a baton on Mahler in the 2022 conducting film, Tar. If Blanchett quits now, she will go down in memory as the abusive female conductor with no human virtues higher than gestural mimicry. Apart from casual disparagement of orchestras and their work,  the hugely hyped film was a moral vacuum in search of a plot, totally ignored in the 2023 Oscars.

Blanchett is too fine an artist to be remembered for such a terrible misjudgement. She should risk one last crack at posterity.

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