Cate Blanchett Isn’t Shocked Her Hilarious Leaf Blower Rants Go Viral (Unique)

Cate Blanchett is discussing her new manufacturing of Anton Chekhov’s play The Seagull when she brings up certainly one of her pet peeves: viewers participation in theater. 

“It’s an act of aggression when individuals step off the stage and begin singling individuals out,” the actress, 55, tells PEOPLE in an excluswith a contact of dry humor. (For the document, her present doesn’t have viewers participation.)

Blanchett was in New York briefly to advertise her new spy thriller Black Bag — costarring Michael Fassbender, Naomie Harris, Regé-Jean Web page and Pierce Brosnan — earlier than jetting again to the U.Okay. for extra performances. 

However her transient and humorous apart about viewers participation brings to thoughts one other of Blanchett’s annoyances: Leaf blowers. By way of the years, the actress has been very vocal about her disdain for the gadgets, notably on a 2022 episode of Sizzling Ones.

Requested about it once more, she doesn’t maintain again. “They’re probably the most moronic invention,” says Blanchett. “They seem to be a image of all that’s incorrect with us as a species.”

As for whether or not she is stunned that numerous interview clips that characteristic her sounding off on leaf blowers have gone viral, the two-time Oscar winner says she is not. “I speak about it on a regular basis,” Blanchett explains.

“You simply received me going about leaf blowers. They’re moronic. I imply, if you happen to see somebody with a leaf blower, would not your blood strain go up?” she then asks Fassbender, 47, who has joined her for the interview.

“I normally hear them first,” the actor provides. “It is the sound. I ponder when they will give you a silent leaf blower. However yeah, it is like blowing the leaves in one other place.”

“However blowing them from one facet to the opposite throughout a windstorm. I imply …” responds Blanchett.

“Carry again the rake,” Fassbender then affords, as Blanchett agrees: “Yeah, deliver again the rake.”

The simple banter between the costars interprets to the display screen. In Black Bag, they play married spies Kathryn St. Jean and George Woodhouse, who lie to one another out of necessity since their jobs require it.

As George is tasked with discovering out who in his company is a possible traitor, he appears into a number of coworkers, together with Kathryn.

“The bizarre factor about these characters is that they work so carefully with each other, and they also know operationally a lot about each other and have numerous info on each other, however but they do not really know what is going on on with one another,” says Blanchett.

Black Bag is now taking part in in theaters.