Yep, she’s an Aussie.
Australian Hollywood A-lister Cate Blanchett will not quickly overlook her roots, she has confirmed, after spruiking her dwelling nation’s “actual soccer”, versus America’s gridiron.
WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Cate Blanchett brings AFL to America’s Jimmy Kimmel Reside.
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The Melbourne-born star of the large display is among the greatest names in Hollywood, having starred in blockbuster movies like Blue Jasmine, Thor: Ragnarok, The Lord of the Rings, Indiana Jones and, most lately, Tar.
For the latter, she is chasing her third Oscar after being nominated for Greatest Actress.
However she’s nonetheless an Aussie by and thru, proving it on Jimmy Kimmel Reside this week.
Kimmel requested Blanchett if she had watched the Tremendous Bowl on Sunday night time (Monday morning AEDT).
“To be trustworthy, it is a gladiatorial sport. The place I got here from, we have now a soccer, we name it soccer, that is Aussie Guidelines… footy,” Blanchett responded with.
“They’ve an analogous type of ball besides they do not have the safety.”
Kimmel, who clearly had minimal however some data of the game, was intrigued.
“They do not even have sleeves proper?” he requested.
“They put on shorts and tank tops,” Blanchett replied.
“And my uncle used to play professionally for Essendon. And my cousin performed in Tasmania the place it is so hardcore they performed on gravel.”
Kimmel may hardly imagine it: “Is that true?”
“Yeah,” Blanchett mentioned. “I imply, the Tremendous Bowl, they take a number of hits, however you go to Tasmania and so they play actual soccer. They lose quite a lot of gamers however … it is why the inhabitants’s actually small.”
“On gravel, that is not kidding round,” Kimmel mentioned.
“They’re on the market, they have no helmet’s on, they’re killing one another in the identical manner, they’re kicking a ball, they’re completely uncovered.”
Spherical again to the unique query, Blanchett mentioned the Tremendous Bowl pales compared to AFL footy.
“And the opening within the Ozone layer is correct over Australia so it is actually, it is a very very tough sport. So, that was nothing final night time,” she mentioned.
