Cate Blanchett returns to the big screen as Galadriel in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, which is released this week. In the film there are a number of characters with facial hair and facial hair jewellery and Cate said that she fell in love with it all.
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Blanchett said on ITV’s Lorraine show, “There was one moment where I fell in love with all of the facial hair and the facial hair jewellery. I mean I don't know if that's going to take on, but it could take off. I said to Peter that if I could come back and wear a beard - because the female dwarves have beards – and I said I'd be up for that.”
She added, “I didn't think I'd get another chance [to play Galadriel] and I've got to play her younger than she was before, which was a challenge. But when you're 3000 years old, give or take 10 years - what's that? It's fantastic, there's no pressure on me really, it's Peter's and Martin's night and the dwarves' night, I'm just along for the ride.”
The Hobbit
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is released in the UK on December 13 and then in the US on December 14. That is then followed by The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, which is released on December 13, 2013 and then the trilogy is rounded off with The Hobbit: There and Back Again, which is released on July 18, 2014.
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey movie trailer
