Crazy and unplanned things happen all the time on live stage productions. Yesterday was no different as an actor lifted a stage prop — I’m hearing it was a radio — and accidentally whacked Cate Blanchett in the back of the head with it. The Academy award-winning actress fell to the floor and started bleeding from the back of her head. Needless to say, the show was promptly cancelled. It is set to resume again on Thursday.
The mayhem all unfolded at the Sydney Theater Company — a company she runs with her playwright husband Andrew Upton — where the actors are doing a production of Streetcar Named Desire. The dude who injured her must be sweating it; inflicting a serious head injury upon the boss/boss’s wife rarely turns out well.
Feel better soon, Cate! Oh, and to the prop-throwing guy … tough break, man.
The dude that hit her was Joel Edgerton. He is an amazing actor and not a bad looker as well.
I’m sure he will not be unemployed.. I could think of a few jobs he could do for me right now ;)
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/cate-blanchett-injured-on-stage/story-e6freuy9-1225768975749
Yeah, Joel Edgerton is a darling of Australian theatre and tv. He’s also a director. He’ll be fine.
Also in Star Wars, Smokin’ Aces, King Arthur…? Not exactly a starving artist, Molls.
I do not know what it is. (this is not the most flattering pic of her) but she is just one of the most beautiful women in Hollywood to me. She just left me BREATHLESS in benjamin button.
Shit happens in life theatre. I got belted across the knees with a suitcase once, sent an ashtray flying into the audience, got a water bottle tangled up in my costume and had to go onstage with it…. and that was all in the one show.
Cate’s cool. Aussies don’t get all litigious over that sort of thing. Theatre Companies have insurance to cover things like that. Very funny though “I hit Cate Blanchet over the head with a radio.”
I’m glad it didn’t turn out to be serious and that the show could go on. Cate Blanchett is awesome.
As Erin says, shit happens in live theatre. I remember going to a production of the Sound of Music which included a long scene with garden furniture standing on stage, with an unopened bottle of champagne on the table. The lights were hot enough that, in the middle of the scene, the cork shot out of the bottle, hit the ceiling and bounced back down towards the actors, to be caught in one hand by the guy playing Captain von Trapp. The audience applauded.
How do you “accidentally” whack someone in the head with a RADIO hard enough to lay them out?!?!?!
this sounds intentional and or premeditated. I would kick ass and take names if someone did that to me!!