Cate Blanchett Reveals Why She Solely Has 1 Photograph from Her Marriage ceremony

Cate Blanchett could not have many photographs from her marriage ceremony to Andrew Upton, however she definitely has nice recollections.

Showing on The Drew Barrymore Present Thursday, March 13, to debate her upcoming thriller Black Bag, the 55-year-old actress revealed why there’s just one picture in existence from her 1997 marriage ceremony.

“Once I received married, which is a really very long time in the past, 27 years in the past,” Blanchett started earlier than getting distracted by a more moderen picture of herself and Upton, 59, that appeared on the studio display.

“Why, why am I doing it like that?” she jokingly requested, wanting on the picture of her laughing together with her husband. Within the snap, captured in March 2024, Blanchett is sitting down as she leans into Upton with a smile.

Getting again on monitor, the Borderlands actress referred to as it “a miracle” to be married “to the identical particular person” for thus lengthy.

“I am nonetheless married for 27 years.”

The Australian actress continued, “Once we received married we had completely no cash. We could not have a photographer and we had two mates who had been photographers.” 

“One man who received so drunk he forgot to load movie within the digicam and the opposite one had such a superb time that he did not take any photos, and because of this, we have now one image of our marriage ceremony,” Blanchett advised Barrymore, 50.

She then described the one marriage ceremony picture they do have, which is “a blurry image of the 2 of us getting within the automotive, however I actually bear in mind the evening because of this.” 

The Disclaimer actress admitted she wasn’t at all times as blissful discussing the second as she is now.

“I used to be so unhappy and so upset and I wept on the time that we did not have any photos, however ultimately I am sort of fairly happy that I haven’t got any photos as a result of I then continuously try to recall the night,” she stated. 

The Oscar winner and her husband — a playwright, screenwriter, director and even an actor in a couple of initiatives — met a few years in the past whereas she was appearing in a manufacturing by Russian playwright Anton Chekhov.

Since then, they’ve welcomed three sons, Dashiell, 23, Roman, 20, and Ignatius, 17, and a daughter Edith, 10.

Though she beforehand advised Vainness Honest in 1999 that she and Upton didn’t hit it off initially, as soon as they lastly did begin to date, issues moved in a short time.

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“He thought I used to be aloof and I believed he was boastful,” she advised the outlet on the time. “And it simply reveals how mistaken you will be. However as soon as he kissed me, that was that.”

“After about 21 days” of courting he proposed, “and I stated sure,” Blanchett later advised Ellen DeGeneres in 2015. 

Black Bag arrives in theaters Friday, March 14.