Cate Blanchett suffered a head injury in a recent stage play, shutting down the show for the night. Reports confirm the actress is fine, and her porcelain beauty – still untouched by plastic surgery – remains intact.
Cate Blanchett earned points for endurance recently when she stayed in character during a play…even after suffering a bleeding head wound. Co-actor Joel Edgerton threw a prop at the two-time Oscar winner during a stage performance last week in Australia of A Streetcar Named Desire. Edgerton was scripted to throw the radio, but Blanchett wasn’t scripted to get hurt.
“She had blood streaming down the back of her head and blood on the back of her neck,” a theater witness told the Sydney Morning Herald. “She acted for about another 30 seconds, then ran into what we thought was the next scene, but before we knew it the lights were turned on and we were told there were technical difficulties.”
Blanchett and company halted the show for the night and patrons were asked to leave. The actress is reportedly fine and will return for future Streetcar shows — apparently, her injury wasn’t severe enough to require surgery. And, unlike many A-list celebrities, Blanchett isn’t exactly surgery-friendly. The actress told Vanity Fair in a recent interview that she’s never had plastic surgery, even after having children. She has also been outspoken against teenagers undergoing cosmetic surgery, in light of rapidly rising trends. Blanchett does reportedly enjoy facials and laser surfacing treatments, but leaves it at that. The actress shuns ever going under the knife, and thinks more people should stay away too.
“I personally don’t think people look better when they do it; they just look different,” Blanchett said. “You’re certainly not staving off the inevitable. And if you’re doing it out of fear, that fear’s still going to be seen through your eyes. The windows to your soul, they say.”
