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Cate Blanchett Offers the Most Gruesome Feral-Cat-Based Metaphor for Being an Actor

The Museum of Modern Art's 8th Annual Film Benefit Honoring Cate Blanchett
Cate Blanchett. Photo: Neilson Barnard/Getty Images

Three martinis in, Cate Blanchett will tell you what it’s really like to be an actor. You know that expression “stuck between a rock and a hard place� Well, according to Blanchett, that’s pretty outdated. In a new GQ profile, she says it’s more like being stuck between a wildfire and a feral cat. Tell us something we don’t know, Cate! Read her (terrifying) explanation below:

Up in the northwest there are bushï¬res, she says. And when there are ï¬res, “these feral cats go to the line that the bushï¬re has reached, where all of the native mammals are escaping the bushï¬re. And the cats have this feeding frenzy for two or three weeks. It’s terrible.â€

That’s disgusting. A feral-cat massacre.

“Yeah. It’s really a serious, serious problem—â€

Imagine being caught between a wildï¬re and a—

“A feral cat, yeah.†Cate Blanchett grins, raises her eyebrows. “That’s what it’s like being an actor. It’s terrible.â€

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