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Cate Blanchett was injured in the middle of a stage performance of A Streetcar Named Desire in Sydney, Australia. This just happened a few hours ago, because the performance was on Wednesday night. Apparently, during the course of a scene, one of Cate’s castmates threw a radio and it hit her in the head. According to eyewitness reports, Cate had blood “streaming” out of some kind of gaping head wound. It was so bad that the play ended just seconds later and the audience was basically told to go home. They must have had to rush Cate to the hospital to get her checked out:
Cate Blanchett suffered a head injury Wednesday after she was hit by a prop during a live performance in her native Australia, according to reports.
The actress, 40, was performing in A Streetcar Named Desire at The Sydney Theatre Company when cast member Joel Edgerton threw a radio, as per the script, and it hit Blanchett on the head.
An audience member tells the Sydney Morning Herald that “she had blood streaming down the back of her head and blood on the back of her neck.”
Adds the witness, “She acted for about another 30 seconds, then ran into what we thought was the next scene, but before we knew it the lights were turned on and we were told there were technical difficulties and everyone had to evacuate the Sydney Theatre Company.”
A rep for Blanchett has yet to issue a statement.
[From Us Weekly]
Damn, this concerns me. I hope we get a “she’s fine” message soon. I’ve had simple head injuries before (don’t ask, it involved a shovel and that’s all I’m saying) and one thing is for sure – they always look terrible. Head wounds are gushers. I hope that in Cate’s case, she just needed stitches and some bed rest – she’s one of our greatest actresses.
UPDATE: Cate’s rep is saying that she’s “fine” and that the play will go tomorrow (Thursday). She probably just needed stitches.
Here are Cate Blancett and her husband Andrew Upton as they leave the Sydney Opera House on August 3rd. Images thanks to Fame Pictures .
Written by Kaiser
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I LOVE Cate. I hope she’s ok.
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Man, please let her be okay. What a scary experience!
I would hate to be that man who threw the prop right now. Sure, it was scripted and there must’ve been some aiming/dodging issue between the both of them, so it’s not his fault, but he must feel bloody awful for having injured his castmate. Poor guy!
I hope Cate is fine!!
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I read this a few hours ago, I hope she recooperates!
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I’m glad to hear she’s okay – since Natasha Richardson died head injuries make me extra nervous.
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Whatever. She supports child pornography so she can just kiss my ass http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/people,1011,cate-blanchett-in-child-porn-row,29881
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! – “Whatever. She supports child pornography so she can just kiss my ass”
Without seeing the photos in question, I can’t judge whether the artist’s work was pornographic, but I highly doubt it really was – there have been a bunch of cases like this in the UK as well, where an artist has included pictures of children (I’m guessing naked) in a gallery show and someone has jumped up to cry pornography, because they themselves are unable to distinguish between nakedness and sexuality, and assume that any display of flesh MUST be sexual in nature.
In other words, by the standards of these moral watchdogs, I’m a pervert for staying in the room and helping when my sister-in-law gets her kids ready for bed and I see my preschool niece and nephews running around naked; by their standards, because there is a picture in my parents’ house of me, aged two, lying down naked in a swimming pool on holiday, my mother is a pornographer. Ludicrous.
I hope it’s just a flesh wound that looks worse than it is, and Cate is back on stage, well and happy, soon as.
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I like Cate and hope she’s okay, but damn, she got so skinny.
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Oh thank goodness!
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She looks sooo much like an older Claire Danes…
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Lenore: the photographer is Bill Henson, and he’s been taking these kind of photos for years now. Not really my sort of art, but it wasn’t porn IMO. Most of the picture was shadow, and you couldn’t see much. But it recently became this huge scandal, involving our PM, and Cate stood up for the photographer.
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Children’s naked bodies shouldn’t be used for art.
No, it’s not porn, but the children are still being objectified for the artist’s purpose.
I would never allow my child to pose naked for a photographer. It’s one think to have pics of your own child running through the sprinklers naked or taking a bath, but being objectified for art — with or without their clothes — is wrong.
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Phew, I’m glad she’ll be okay. Cate Blanchett is one of my very favorite actresses.
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I was so scared about what was going to happen to her !
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She looks sooo much like an older Claire Danes
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really scared i can not sleep this night
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