"When I first came out of drama school, I didn't work like a lot of my counterparts. But someone who ran one of the biggest casting agencies took a shine to me and asked me to come in and be a reader opposite people who were auditioning," she recalls.
"I couldn't get arrested as an actor. And I was weird-looking; no one knew what to do with me. So, I would go in three or four times a week and spend three or four hours reading." The Australian-born star's luck soon changed and she landed her first film role in Paradise Road in 1997, before her international breakthrough the following year, playing Queen Elizabeth I in period drama Elizabeth.
Now one of Hollywood's leading ladies, the actress is starring in comedy-drama Rumours opposite Charles Dance and in the Apple TV+ miniseries Disclaimer with Kevin Kline and Sacha Baron Cohen.
In Rumours, Cate plays a German chancellor among heads of state who find themselves lost in the woods following a G7 summit, while Disclaimer casts her as a filmmaker whose life is turned upside down when she's given a selfpublished novel that is clearly about her own life.
Despite the vast differences in her latest roles, Cate, 55, says she relished the challenge. "I think I run on instinct as if it were gasoline. I think it's just timing: doing what comes up at the time.
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