Why Oscars star Cate might quit

DOUBLE Oscar-winner Cate Blanchett is considering retirement as she approaches 50.

‘As you get older, acting just gets more and more humiliating. When I was younger, I would wonder why the older actors I admired kept talking about quitting,’ says Cate, who lives in East Sussex with her playwright husband, fellow Aussie Andrew Upton, and their four children.

‘Now I realise it’s because they want to maintain a connection to the last shreds of their sanity. As I get older, I ask myself if I still want to submit myself to the shamanistic end of this profession and go completely into madness.’ Cripes!