Cate Blanchett is opening up about how little she actually made filming the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
The 55-year-old Aussie actress was promoting her highly-anticipated Borderlands movie on Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live on Wednesday with her co-star Gina Gershon.
She participated in a game called Plead the 5th, when host Andy Cohen asked what movie got her the biggest paycheck, and he guessed Lord of the Rings, where she played the elf Galadriel.
Blanchett was stunned, stating, ‘Are you kidding me? No, nobody got paid anything to do that movie.’
When Cohen asked if she got, ‘a piece of the back end’ on the trilogy that grossed over $2 billion worldwide, Blanchett said, ‘No! That was way before any of that, nothing. I wanted to work with the guy who made Brain Dead. I mean, I basically got free sandwiches and I got to keep my ears.’
Cate Blanchett is opening up about how little she actually made filming the Lord of the Rings trilogy
She participated in a game called Plead the 5th, when host Andy Cohen asked what movie got her the biggest paycheck, and he guessed Lord of the Rings, where she played the elf Galadriel
