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Cate Blanchett gave quite a little shock to Andy Cohen this August when she revealed that her role in Peter Jacksons The Lord of the Rings did not garner her biggest paycheck. The brilliant Australian actress gave a near otherworldly performance as Galadriel in the epic trilogy, but she did not take on the role for fame and fortune, the latter of which being scant for most actors in those movies. Instead, Blanchett told Cohen that she wanted to work with the director of Braindead. It is, by now, fairly well known that Peter Jackson got his start directing splatter movies, and the most famous of these films is 1992s Braindead, better known as Dead Alive in the US. The film is gloriously over the top, and while it does not especially resemble Jacksons tone in The Lord of the Rings (to put it mildly!), one can easily see why Blanchett is a fan.
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