Cate Blanchett Reveals Why She Solely Has 1 Picture from Her Wedding ceremony

Cate Blanchett could not have many pictures from her wedding ceremony to Andrew Upton, however she definitely has nice reminiscences.

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 photograph in existence from her 1997 wedding ceremony.

“After I acquired 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 photograph of herself and Upton, 59, that appeared on the studio display screen.

“Why, why am I doing it like that?” she jokingly requested, wanting on the picture of her laughing along 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 observe, the Borderlands actress known as it “a miracle” to be married “to the identical particular person” for therefore lengthy.

“I am nonetheless married for 27 years.”

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

“One man who acquired so drunk he forgot to load movie within the digital camera and the opposite one had such an excellent time that he did not take any footage, and because of this, we have now one image of our wedding ceremony,” Blanchett informed Barrymore, 50.

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

The Disclaimer actress admitted she wasn’t at all times as comfortable 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 footage, however in the long run I am form of fairly happy that I haven’t got any footage as a result of I then always attempt to recall the night,” she mentioned. 

The Oscar winner and her husband — a playwright, screenwriter, director and even an actor in just a few tasks — met a few years in the past whereas she was performing 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 informed Vainness Truthful 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 assumed he was smug,” she informed the outlet on the time. “And it simply exhibits how incorrect you could be. However as soon as he kissed me, that was that.”

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

Black Bag arrives in theaters Friday, March 14.