Cate Blanchett Shares Battle With Faith In New Movie

May 3, 2024206 views0

Cate Blanchett Shares Battle With Faith In New Movie

2024-05-03T10:25:39+01:00

By Marie

In an interview with The Times Cate Blanchett revealed that she grew up hoping for God to be real.The Oscar-winning actress starred in a new film called The New Boy. In this film, Blanchett portrays a nun in 1940s Australia.The film’s backers say it “explores spirituality, culture and colonization in a way we haven’t seen on screen before”.The New Boy was filmed near the Melbourne suburb where she spent her childhood.Her father, Robert, worked in advertising and died of a heart attack when she was ten years old.Reflecting on her father’s sudden death, the actress, aged 54, said: “As a child I wanted a religion. I wanted the strong hand of God to put a hand on my childish shoulders to say, ‘Your father is with me. He’s having fun. You’ll see him in 60 years.“But that didn’t happen. And so as a ten-year-old I fled from the church and moved down to the river and spent my childhood propelled into nature”.Blanchett went on to explain “If I’d stayed inside the Methodist church I’d have a lot of bad guitar playing, but instead I rode my bike, thinking I was Nancy Drew, down by the Yarra River. I remember that as profoundly as I remember the hymns”.When asked if she abandoned religion because it didn’t give her what she wanted, Blanchett responded: “It was not so much about what I wanted…more what I was hoping for. Also, I was ten.“But religion contains a sense of hope and also a sense of community. And, in a way, that desire for something greater than myself never left me”.Also Read: Lordina Announces Season 2 of “The Summons”