The stage is calling her Down Under
Cate Blanchett hinted Friday that her acting career may take a back seat to her new role as the artistic director of a leading theater company in Sydney, Australia.
The Oscar-winning actress and her playwright husband, Andrew Upton, have agreed to become co-artistic directors of the Sydney Theatre Company starting in January 2008.
“The acceptance for the role of co-artistic director of this company is not a dalliance,” Blanchett told reporters in Sydney on Friday.
The Australian-born actress said the artistic director role would become her new full-time job, although she and Upton would be free for three months each year to pursue their own projects.
Blanchett and Upton, who have two small children, will write and act with the Sydney Theatre Company and will steer its programming.
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