Cate Blanchett on Brexit: 'The rage I feel at the lazy incompetence of the men who set this in motion'
The Australian actor also spoke about the MeToo movement
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Your support makes all the difference.Cate Blanchett has criticised the politicians who began the process of Britain leaving the European Union.
The Australian actor – who owns a house in East Sussex with her husband, playwright Andrew Upton – called the people who set the initial vote in motion “incompetent” and said the public should be “disappointed” by the way the situation has since been handled.
“The rage I feel at the lazy incompetence of the men who set this in motion,” she told Harper’s Bazaar.
“Whichever way you voted, you cannot but be disappointed in the way the architects of Brexit have behaved.”
The 49 year old came to international attention playing Elizabeth I in the 1998 biopic Elizabeth, for which she was nominated for an Oscar. She later won the prestigious award for a second time for her role in Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine.
During the same interview, Blanchett spoke about the MeToo movement, calling it “an incredibly important concept” that has affected all industries, not just show business.
“I think the biggest and most profound change that I’ve felt is the way women are talking to each other, that has really shifted,” she said. “We didn’t want to be seen to be a problem, or tell other women we had issues; we were sort of self-isolating... I think that has shifted in a permanent way.”
Blanchett will next appear on the big screen in Eli Roth’s adaptation of The House with a Clock in Its Walls. Next January, she will be appearing at the The National Theatre in London in the play When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other: Twelve Variations on Samuel Richardson’s Pamela.
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