Cate Blanchett is opening up about her lunch with Queen Elizabeth.
Showing on Watch What Occurs Stay with Andy Cohen on Wednesday, August 7, the actress and producer, 55, revealed that she as soon as ate with Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace — however someway wound up being requested if she might restore Prince Philip’s DVD participant.
“I had lunch on the palace,” Blanchett mentioned.
Requested why she was invited, the Lord of the Rings star replied. “I have no idea. The top of the fireplace brigade was there and Helen Fielding — not the novelist — the scientist, was there.”
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“I believed possibly as a result of I performed her ancestor Queen Elizabeth I however I imply Prince Philip simply requested if I might assist him along with his DVD participant,” Blanchett continued. “As a result of I used to be an actress,” she added with amusing.
“Oh that outdated line,” Gina Gershon, who costars with Blanchett within the new film Borderlands, added.
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“And did you assist him?,” host Cohen, 56, requested, to which Blanchett responded, “No I didn’t. I’m not technical.”
Requested if she thought the late Queen had seen Blanchett’s 1998 film Elizabeth, the place she performed Queen Elizabeth I, the actress joked “It grew to become very clear that she had not!”
Again in 2018, Blanchett opened up about her interplay with the late Prince Philip.
Talking to U.Ok. speak present host Jonathan Ross, she mentioned, “There have been 12 of us, and I couldn’t work out for the lifetime of me why I’d been invited.”
“I sat subsequent to [Philip] and he mentioned, ‘I hear you’re an actor? I used to be given a DVD participant for Christmas and I can’t work out whether or not I put the inexperienced twine in or the pink twine,’ ” she went on to say.
She added with amusing, “I believed, ‘He’s invited me to lunch to inform me about his DVD participant!’”
