Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy remodeled $1 billion on the field workplace, however apparently none of that actually trickled right down to the actors. No less than not ones like Cate Blanchett, latest star of the less-esteemed Borderlands adaptation, who stated in a brand new interview she principally obtained paid for being within the film with sandwiches.
Blanchett had already been nominated for an Academy Award by the point she performed the excessive elf Galadriel in Jackson’s rendition of the Tolkien fantasy books. Amid the Borderlands media tour this week, she was requested on Bravo’s Watch What Occurs Stay With Andy Cohen (by way of Deadline) which film in her profession she’d earned probably the most from.
Cohen was requested in return to guess, and when he urged Lord of the Rings, Blanchett scoffed. “Are you kidding me?” she stated. “No, nobody obtained paid something to try this film.” The actor, finest recognized for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth I and extra just lately a disgraced orchestra conductor in Tár, stated she wished to work with Jackson due to his cult zombie basic Braindead (generally known as Useless Alive within the U.S.).
“I principally obtained free sandwiches,” Blanchett instructed Cohen. “And I obtained to maintain my ears.” She defined that within the early aughts, when the Lord of the Rings movies got here out, actor residuals for field workplace efficiency weren’t widespread, and added that, “Girls don’t receives a commission as a lot as you assume they do.”
Blanchett is now starring because the bounty hunter Lilith in Borderlands, which opened in theaters this week to a actually disastrous Rotten Tomatoes rating. She beforehand stated she joined the film to flee the mid-covid “insanity,” although others urged it was for a much bigger payday. I actually hope she obtained the bag for her troubles this time.
