Maybe it’s just time to stop,” said Cate Blanchett, ever the tease, reflecting on the sheer range of her filmography in a recent convo with Julia Roberts. Or maybe it’s not, going by Blanchett’s upcoming work. With high-grade TV gigs lately under her belt, the two-time Oscar winner is ready to stretch the reach of her sprawling career, one that already spans from Elizabethan England to Asgard and beyond.
“I’m constantly interested in opening unexpected, invisible doors,” she says of her film choices. While she feared typecasting following her Oscar-nominated break-out in 1998’s Elizabeth, Blanchett’s pursuit of fresh challenges took her to prestige fare (The Aviator, Blue Jasmine), iconoclastic indie work (as Bob Dylan in I’m Not There), genre tentpoles (Indiana Jones, The Lord Of The Rings, Thor: Ragnarok) and more besides. Even so, she may have located another unexpected opening, this time into FPS turf: rumours link her to high-powered siren Lilith in an adaptation of the video game Borderlands, which would reunite her with gung-ho helmer Eli Roth (The House With A Clock In Its Walls).