Borderlands ’ August 9 releaseis just over a calendar month away , and it ’s still almost incredible that this moving picture survive . The fact that it ’s directed by Eli Roth and based on the mega - popular television biz is n’t so odd ; rather , it ’s the stack ensemble mould that includes Jamie Lee Curtis , Kevin Hart , Ariana Greenblatt , Edgar Ramírez , the part of Jack Black , and … Cate Blanchett ?
Lest you cerebrate that Blanchett , who ’s more known for dramatic role ( though she does n’t turn down franchise opportunities ; see : the Lord of the Rings trilogy , Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull , and Marvel ’s Thor : Ragnarok ) , signed on to represent outer space criminal Lilith merely for a payroll check , let the two - time Oscar winner set you directly .
Speaking toEmpire , Blanchett explain “ covid insaneness ” might have charm her determination to join the cast , under the counseling of Roth , who she ’d worked with previously ( along with Black ) on 2018 ’s The House With a Clock in Its Walls . “ I was pass a lot of prison term in the garden , using the chainsaw a little too freely , ” she confess . “ My husband said , ‘ This film could preserve your life . ’ ”
Chainsaw not pictured.Image: Lionsgate
Even with the commonwealth of the world at the time , she was able to enlist in some pandemic - well-disposed research . “ My thumbs can barely control a phone , but I bought a PS5 and we bring each other , ” Blanchett explain . “ I require to know the limits of the game and what fan screw about the character . I got really absorb in that whole earthly concern . The cosplayers . The YouTube make - up tutorial . ”
She also tell the magazine that because the Borderlands pic seemed like such an uneven tantrum , that made it even more tempting . “ The mad asks are unremarkably the things I gravitate towards ; the things I could never conceive of , ” she say , and admitted “ the gas pedal - slinging stuff was so much fun . ” What , no chainsaw ?
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