Cate Blanchett feels she has to fight for the right to be an artist in Australia

Hollywood star Cate Blanchett feels the need to constantly justify her career in her native AustraliaThe actress said she hates strangers asking her what she does for a living when shes in Down Under because she doesnt think her craft is celebrated in the way it is in the UK and US where she spends a lot of her time reports aceshowbizcomThe worst thing for us as an actor in Australia is getting in the back of the cab and a cabbie asking What do you do Because you think Oh God she said according to the Courier Mail newspaper during an event at the Roslyn Packer Theatre at the Sydney Theatre Company which she and husband Andrew Upton ran from 2008 to 2011Youre constantly having to fight for the space or to justify the fact that you have the right to actually be an artist in Australia she stated But yet overseas our culture is celebrated and sung and praised but we dont often do it internally We dont often know what we have here And living and working overseas I can see absolutely objectively what we have hereThe 54yearold actress admitted promoting homegrown stories such as her new movie The New Boy which follows an Indigenous youth with supernatural powers set in outback Australia during World War II is a priority for herCate said Any chance I have to amplify that and to find ways for that work to get out overseas and be celebrated but also to be celebrated here is deeply important to meLast month the Oscarwinning star caused a stir when she joined sparks on stage at Glastonbury to dance to their song The Girl Is Crying in Her Latte But the actress insisted she had no idea the performance would be such a talkedabout moment and insisted nothing about it was plannedTalking about the footage taking the internet by storm she said Oh did it Well thats exciting I love Glastonbury Id known Sparks for a while now and I was in video and they were going to Glastonbury and I was going Glastonbury so they said would I And I went Why not Everything was made up Everything was on the flyThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever