The Borderlands star said it was anything but a pay day
Peter Jackson ’s Lord of the Rings trilogy made over $1 billion at the box office, but apparently none of that really trickled down to the actors. At least not ones like Cate Blanchett , recent star of the less-esteemed Borderlands adaptation, who said in a new interview she basically got paid for being in the movie with sandwiches. Blanchett had already been nominated for an Academy Award by the time she played the high elf Galadriel in Jackson’s rendition of the Tolkien fantasy books.
” The actor, best known for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth I and more recently a disgraced orchestra conductor in Tár, said she wanted to work with Jackson because of his cult zombie classic Braindead . “I basically got free sandwiches,” Blanchett told Cohen. “And I got to keep my ears.
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