The following is a script coming from "Cate Blanchett" that aired about February 16, 2014, and also ...

1. Cate Blanchett on Blue Jasmine, Oscar-nominated role, &
more on 60 Minutes
The following is a script coming from "Cate Blanchett" that aired about February 16, 2014, and also
had been rebroadcast upon June 29, 2014. Lesley Stahl is the correspondent. Rich Bonin, producer.
To the particular surprise associated with virtually simply no one, this year's Oscar pertaining to
greatest actress visited Cate Blanchett on her leading role throughout Woody Allen's "Blue Jasmine."
Blanchett was raised in Australia exactly where -- once we very first reported in February -- the lady
started her career in the theater. She's a film star whom will Shakespeare. She's above all the
theater actor, winning wild praise on the girl behalf Hedda Gabler as well as Blanche DuBois on the
stage.
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60 Minutes Overtime
The memorable roles associated with Cate Blanchett
In her 60 Minutes interview, the Oscar-winning actress discusses your ex strangest and finest roles,
coming from Bob Dylan for you to "Blue Jasmine"
This doesn't mean she can't have a joke or a fun role inside blockbusters such as Indiana Jones. It
seems she could take action all, playing Americans, Russians, Germans, skinheads, albinos along
with men. Vanity Fair known as the woman's "a character actress in a leading woman's body."
Lesley Stahl: so you've played the queen regarding England, you've played an elf, you played an
Italian immigrant--
Cate Blanchett: Albino.
Lesley Stahl: Albino--

2. Cate Blanchett: And Also that's just just before breakfast this morning.
[Clip as albino: I have pink eyes. Such As a putano, huh? Similar To your devil, eh?]
Lesley Stahl: Your range is actually extraordinary.
Cate Blanchett: I guess I've got one of these faces that is actually not specifically beautiful, much
less ugly, a person know. I could look--
Lesley Stahl: Arrive on--
Cate Blanchett: --a bit masculine, I may appear any bit feminine depending in how you're lit, how
you're shot. I don't mind not looking conventionally-- an individual know, attractive if that is actually
what your portion requires.
So she will end up being gorgeous along with regal as the elf queen in "Lord with the Rings." Not
Necessarily so much when the girl played Bob Dylan.
[Cate as Dylan: An Individual just want me to always be able to say what you want me to end up
being able to say.]
Cate Blanchett: I don't feel like, now I'm a fantastic actress. I never feel that. A Person often think,
"OK, I've discovered that. Well, now imagine if I did that?"
They contact the girl a chameleon - the way she virtually molts in to her characters, as when your
woman played Katharine Hepburn within "The Aviator," for that she won an Oscar pertaining to very
best supporting actress.
[Cate as Katharine Hepburn: You're not extending enough on your own follow-through. Follow-through
will be all things in golf, just such as life. Hahaha, not find?!]
"I don't feel like, now I'm an excellent actress. I by no means feel that. Anyone usually think, 'OK,
I've learned that. Well, now imagine if I would that?'"
She spent weeks with a voice coach perfecting Hepburn's distinctive accent.
Lesley Stahl: Can Easily an individual converse Katharine Hepburn?
Cate Blanchett: No, I can't do anything. I'm terrible. I'm your worst dinner party guest inside the
world. Folks say, "Oh, do-- do your current Scottish," along with I'll go, "Okee. I'll do me--" I sound
like I'm a new cross among sort of via New Delhi, and-- Boston. It's terrible.
In "Blue Jasmine" the lady plays any desperate Park Voie socialite whom loses her existence
involving status and also luxury when the girl husband turns out being a swindler like Bernie
Madoff.
[Clip coming from "Blue Jasmine": Uh, I ended up being forced to consider a new task selling shoes
about Madison Avenue. Ugh, thus humiliating. friends I'd had from dinner parties from our
apartment arrived and I waited on them. I mean, do you have any kind of idea what that's like?]
Cate Blanchett: The Lady was monumentally deluded. And Also like a great offer of us, I mean, we -

3. we-- our lives are built on a fictionalized feeling of self. who we would - which we aspire to always be
able to be, rather than possibly whom we truly are.
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How Cate Blanchett ready for "Blue Jasmine"
"She was monumentally deluded," actor Cate Blanchett says about her character within Woody
Allen's "Blue Jasmine."
Lesley Stahl: An Individual do a great offer of research. You're recognized for reading, watching
videos, getting--
Cate Blanchett: It's enjoyable. It's enjoyable.
Lesley Stahl: Can Be it true which you watched your 60 Minutes Morley Safer interview involving
Ruth Madoff?
[Ruth Madoff in 60 Minutes: if I could adjust things, no much less than if I had tried, I might have
felt just any little better.]
Lesley Stahl: Bernie Madoff's wife--
Cate Blanchett: Yes, absolutely--
Lesley Stahl: Does which help you? Would it?
Cate Blanchett: That did. I believe that what I actually got coming from them, in which Madoff
interview, ended up being your sense of shame. And I Also found out that really useful.
One critic called it "the many complicated along with demanding performance regarding her movie
career."
Clip via "Blue Jasmine": A Person know, someday once you occur into excellent wealth, you want to
keep throughout mind being generous.

4. But for Blanchett, Woody Allen's notoriously minimal direction was unnerving.
Lesley Stahl: An Individual really love to speak things out. and as I realize it, that can be not his
style.
Cate Blanchett: No. He's monosyllabic in best. I do not really know how to accomplish this thing
unless it's in conversation together with somebody else. I can't--monologue is actually - terrifies me.
Lesley Stahl: but that's that which usually you got.
Cate Blanchett: Initial day he said, "It's awful. You're awful."
Lesley Stahl: In Order To you?
Cate Blanchett: Yeah.
Lesley Stahl: He stated "awful"?
Cate Blanchett: "It's awful."
Lesley Stahl: Nevertheless he didn't say what to do? He just said, "It's awful"?
Cate Blanchett: No. No.
Lesley Stahl: Thus then you did it again--
Cate Blanchett: and it was still awful. However --
Lesley Stahl: This was still awful?
Cate Blanchett: Well, obviously, it got a bit far better because it didn't-- an individual know, folks
have gone to notice it.
Her breakthrough role came in 1998 since the queen of England in "Elizabeth."
[Cate within "Elizabeth": I'm married in order to England.]
After that performance, your woman had been offered other large parts, nevertheless went for
characters that stretched her, rather than ones that will help make the woman's famous.
Even however she's usually around the red carpet these days, Blanchett by no means sought to
become a show star, nor do your woman believe she'd ever become one.
She's the actual center child of a school teacher mother and transplanted Texan father, that died
when your woman had been 10. The Lady dropped out of college to review theater.
What she wanted has been being was obviously a excellent stage actress along with got the woman's
initial significant role in the play only at the particular Sydney Theater Company.
Cate Blanchett: There's a photo over here--

5. In 1993, she co-starred along with fellow Aussie Geoffrey Rush inside David Mamet's "Oleanna."
Lesley Stahl: Appear how directly into it a person are. Anyone are usually thus inside.
Cate Blanchett: It was one of individuals plays.
["Oleanna" clip, Australian TV - Cate: you can easily examine your self and you can effortlessly see
those items that I see. and a person can find revulsion add up to my own. good day!]
Lesley Stahl: An Individual were a new triumph within it. Folks had been dazzled.
Cate Blanchett: Yeah, the actual director really almost sacked me. As Well As that features been
probably a large motivator for me personally to accomplish a much better job--
Lesley Stahl: Tend To Be you certainly 1 of individuals people-- are an individual currently among
those individuals that--
Cate Blanchett: Likes to become terrified.
Lesley Stahl: Likes to become terrified?
Cate Blanchett: I believe it's the only approach to work for me--
Lesley Stahl: It motivates you?
Cate Blanchett: Yeah. I'm significantly better along with truth.
Lesley Stahl: Perhaps if it hurts?
Cate Blanchett: Also if it hurts.
Lesley Stahl: Well, I believe you've discussed the entire method as the trapeze effect. You're flying
up there, as well as you might fall.
Cate Blanchett: Yes--
Lesley Stahl: It's fear.
Cate Blanchett: While you're stretching yourself, as a role such as "Blue Jasmine" does pertaining to
me, anyone risk falling flat in your face.
She applies that will identical risk-taking to the woman's personal life, like when the lady and
Andrew Upton, the playwright and director, made your decision to have married on a whim. they
were each a portion of your Sydney Theater crowd.
"When you're stretching yourself, as a task such as "Blue Jasmine" do for me, a person risk falling
flat on your own face."
Lesley Stahl: How have you meet? How do the particular sparks start?
Andrew Upton: The Actual sparks started slowly, I think, personally.

6. Cate Blanchett: We didn't just like every other.
Andrew Upton: We didn't jump on in any kind of way in the actual beginning sight--
Lesley Stahl: Really?
Cate Blanchett: And Also then most of the sudden, we played poker 1 night and in addition you had
been telling me about how a person were crazy about a pal regarding mine, after which we kissed.
Lesley Stahl: And, just about all of your sudden, you're asking her to marry you, real fast as I realize
it.
Andrew Upton: I feel it absolutely was regarding 21 days.
Lesley Stahl: and a person mentioned yes proper away? three weeks?
Cate Blanchett: Yeah. An Individual leap off at exactly your same time. And that I think it's just about
all regulated about timing.
Andrew Upton as well as Cate Blanchett
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She says their marriage is actually a partnership within the raising regarding their particular 3 sons,
ages 5, 9 as well as 12 along with in their careers. Upton may be your ex collaborator and sounding
board. And Also they will share a love regarding their country. She's Australian via along with
through, down-to-earth and also happy being 18 time zones away from Hollywood.
Cate Blanchett: I adore Australia. I mean, I reside and perform here. And I Am buoyed up by it. I'm
inspired by simply it.

7. As she took us for any walk over the Sydney coast, your woman mentioned the woman's private life.
Except on her husband, the only real person in the family we'd be allowed to film would be your new
puppy Fletcher. The Woman's residence and also your ex kids had been off limits.
In the late 90s, the girl and Upton moved to England along with the girl movie profession took off.
but within 2006, the actual Sydney Theater Organization invited these to come back and also just
take more than as co-artistic directors and so they jumped with it.
Cate Blanchett: It was one of the fastest choices I feel we produced as soon as the particular offer
had arrive our way, apart through how fast we got married. Maybe inside the same spirit, strangely.
Andrew Upton: Yeah, I think it absolutely was within the exact same spirit of adventure.
It's the job they shared for six years. That kept Cate throughout Sydney, allowing the woman's for
you to invest additional time with their children, along with to arrive back to become able to her first
love, theater.
Lesley Stahl: Consequently this is wardrobe.
While the girl acted throughout some associated with the productions, your woman in addition
became an administrator, overseeing such items as wardrobe and also props. The Girl along with
Upton hired huge identify directors - as well as brought the organization international acclaim with
ambitious productions such as "Streetcar Named Desire," that they will took to new York in 2009,
using Cate as Blanche Dubois.
Lesley Stahl: It is so intense. This had been so intense. How long can it require in order to come
down coming from an experience about the stage like that?
Cate Blanchett: In time you merely -- you do eight shows any week, my head of hair had been falling
out within clumps through the end, and also I mean--
Lesley Stahl: Your-- is always that true?
Cate Blanchett: Yeah. It had been not--
Lesley Stahl: The curly hair had been receding 'cause you put a excellent deal into it--
Cate Blanchett: However I feel I only agreed in order to be so exhausted by, simply by it.
She's recognized to be low maintenance, her drama's strictly onscreen or about stage. Any time we
met your ex prior to the performance regarding Uncle Vanya, the girl has been performing her
makeup.
[Clip through Uncle Vanya: Your Own life should certainly not be to end up being able to grumble
along with moan.]
Well, what's the lady like following a performance?
Lesley Stahl: Really Does the lady remain inside the role?
Andrew Upton: No.

8. Lesley Stahl: The Girl will come house as well as she's even now Blanche DuBois which night--
Cate Blanchett: Don't answer that, Andrew.
Lesley Stahl: she comes residence and also she's Cate?
Andrew Upton: Yeah--
Lesley Stahl: Following these emotional, powerful--
Andrew Upton:: Yeah. Fairly calm and also chirpy.
She says she's not actually a "method" actor which "mines" your ex inner-self for you to unlock any
character.
Cate Blanchett: That offers absolutely nothing to complete beside me and also the proven fact that
my dog died as well as my father died along with my-- when I ended up being 10, as well as creating
the actual grief small , individual as well as inward. As Well As so as a result you don't take it house
since you tend to be not experiencing several personal, inward self-analysis each as well as every
night that could eat you away. You're giving it away for the audience as well as hopefully, when it
works, then, it's their-- they have-- it's their own problem--
Lesley Stahl: they take it in. Well, yeah--
Cate Blanchett: They Will may take it home.
In December, Cate decided to leave the particular Sydney Theater Business and a task the girl loved.
Lesley Stahl: Precisely what went in to that decision?
Cate Blanchett: The Particular children. A Person could feel their own university wants start to
grow. That They really need that will focus and, at a particular point, you've to create a
determination concerning that, as well as that's not some thing we want to outsource.
Now the woman's choices by what roles to consider inside movies include just how long she'd get
being away from house or perhaps whether she will take the boys along with the woman's in
location, as the girl would using "Blue Jasmine" - the woman's comeback for the movies, which
usually she has carried out having a roar.
Lesley Stahl: You're 44 a prolonged time old.
Cate Blanchett: Am I? We don't need to talk about that.
Lesley Stahl: Yeah, a person are--
Cate Blanchett: We don't have to rub which in. Let's not--
Lesley Stahl: I'm not rubbing it in. I believe it's excellent being 44, frankly. Nevertheless it may be
considered a tough age group with an actress. In least, that is actually the myth, I guess. Simply
Because for you, it's been a fabulous age.

9. Cate Blanchett: Well, I came to the film industry-- I mean, inside actress years, I has been pushing
80. Since I is at my mid-20s when I created my 1st film.
Now your ex movie career is really hot, she's already registered regarding seven films. She's booked
sound via no less than 2015.
Lesley Stahl: Just what may end up being the hardest a part of the job? The Actual thing a person
struggle with the most?
Cate Blanchett: Oh, look. Will Be it hard? I have no idea which it's hard. I'm an actress. I feel the
most difficult thing - it's the military maneuver of getting a couple of careers, three children,
nevertheless this is actually a working mother's problem, working parents' issue - that is actually not
your challenge associated with work. I think within relation for the work, your trickiest thing will be
beginning. I believe it's a serious tricky neuro-linguistic procedure truly to try and also create
something that another, in which any character said, to make it come out through your body and
also allow it to always be able to be appear like that's natural. It's kind of tricking yourself; the
particular confidence trick. like an athlete does, you have to merely say: "I'm just likely to start. I'm
ready. I'm open. Let's go."
She'll be returning for the stage in August. Executing in Ny Area in the Sydney Theater Company's
output of "The Maids." Your Ex role: any homicidal house-servant in a realm of have's and
additionally have not's.
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