From IMDB: Cate Blanchett’s Best Actress Oscar nomination failed to boost her career – because producers just wanted her to repeat her celebrated role in Elizabeth. The Australian star found that, contrary to expectations, an Academy Award nomination 1998 actually hindered her desire to play a wide variety of roles. She explains, “Just because one is nominated for an Academy Award doesn’t mean that everything changes. The offers I had after Elizabeth were to do the same thing again, and I wasn’t interested in doing that. I wanted to reclaim or to claim the space to actually keep working. I’m in it for the long haul and not for the short-term benefits, and I’ve been lucky enough always to do work that interests me.”
Day: June 24, 2003
Ringer RL from the Telcontari Group has sent in word that Brazil can expect to see The Return of the King starting on December 25th, the same dates that FotR and TTT were released there. Now that’s what I call a Christmas present!