Over turmeric tea one evening, double Oscar winner Cate Blanchett talks about the secret of relationships and how to survive the current news cycle. The answer? Jump into the ice…
ate Blanchett saw in the New Year in the Arctic, with her husband and four children, by cutting a hole in the ice and jumping in. It was -30C and she wore a “funny hat” for the cold and, “It was fabulous,” because, she says, “Everything… paused.” It’s February now, and the restaurant near the river is just beginning to fill with evening diners when Blanchett slides between the tables in her tartan “chicken feeding coat” and striped shirt, collar popped.
“I always think you have to start as you mean to continue. I think that’s true of relationships, friendships, any enterprise. It’s a new day. And I’m just trying to start my day as I mean to continue – connected and open-hearted. That’s what I’m trying to do.” Is it working? “It feels like a monumental challenge at the moment. My job is to connect. And there are a lot of nefarious actors at the moment striving for us to separate ourselves from each other.” She purses her lips.
Her head to the side, she asks what it’s like digesting news in order to write a weekly column, and I admit I forget everything the second it goes to press. “Oh, that’s interesting because I have the opposite thing. Once I’ve put something to bed, I have this profound realisation – I see the train receding and I think, now I know I was sitting in the wrong seat.
“I think a lot of human issues have been politicised.” Carefully, she continues. “And the problem is that everything is so fragile at the moment, so we really have to be very judicious and targeted about where and when and to whom things get said, because so much is at stake. And somehow often a throwaway comment gets picked up and suddenly it becomes a mission statement. And what does that add to the action?” She flutters, apologetically.
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