"The less one can think about oneself, the more interesting and attractive one becomes."
With her new short hair look and dreamy Armani Privé gown, Cate Blanchett owned the red carpet at last night's Academy Awards. For Oscar night, makeup artist Jeanine Lobell laid the foundation for Blanchett's ethereal realness by layering SK-II's new super-charged R.N.A. Power Radical New Age Essence and R.N.A. Power Radical New Age Cream to bring her skin to life. "I started using SK-II when I was pregnant with my first child, who is now 14, so I've been using it for 15 years very consistently," Blanchett tells me when we meet before Oscars night. "Obviously, if I'm going out, I'll use the facial treatment masks or the facial treatment oil, but my routine doesn't change very much." Here, the Carol star discusses confidence and getting past the pressure to look a certain way on the red carpet.
WHAT'S YOUR BEAUTY ROUTINE IN REAL LIFE?
In my life, I get thrown a lot of stuff—stuff that says, 'This is the product that is going to change your life!' That's the stuff I tend to ignore because SK-II has worked for me so well. The new products have an amplified amount of Pitera. My feeling is that they're going to the root of my skin and working on a deeper level than a lot of moisturizers.
WHAT IS YOUR ATTITUDE TOWARD BEAUTY IN GENERAL?
It's less is more. The less one can think about oneself the more interesting and attractive one becomes. If you think about Audrey Hepburn, I think she became more beautiful when she stopped being an actress and started working with humanitarian campaigns. The more engaged you can become the more you can shed your self-consciousness.
WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN YOU DON'T FEEL SO BEAUTIFUL?
I don't think about being beautiful or not being beautiful. I think my kids are beautiful. It's more about feeling confident inside your own skin really and thinking about yourself as little as possible. Every single pore—not on the men, but on the women—is scrutinized, so I am really grateful that I feel very confident in my own skin. I am the age that I am and I am trying to do the best with what I got. I'm not dressing for anyone else. I don't really subscribe to other people's idea of what is beautiful. I just want to feel good.
WHEN IT COMES TO A BIG EVENT LIKE THE OSCARS, WHAT'S YOUR GETTING READY RITUAL LIKE?
Take a bath. Have a massage. Put on a facial mask and lie down. I am watching Making a Murderer, which is a very cheery thing to watch on the day of the Oscars, but I've got to finish it! That's probably what I'm going to do on Sunday morning. But it's like New Year's Eve. If you over plan New Year's Eve it's going to be a disaster so you have to be alive to changes.
SPEAKING OF BEING ALIVE TO CHANGES, AND YOU'RE HERE FOR THE SK-II CHANGE DESTINY FORUM TODAY, DO YOU BELIEVE IN DESTINY?
The notion of fate and destiny is a very Greek concept. Working in the theater you do think a lot about that, because as a storyteller you do think, 'At what point was this always going to happen and what part have I got a hand in being able to change things?' I'm not a big believer in linear paths. I would always have these sort of five-year plans and think, 'Ok, I wouldn't mind to try to get here in five years.' I remember when I was 26. My father died when I was young and my mother didn't have a lot of money, so I thought, 'I want to own a flat by the time I'm 26.' So I worked towards that, literally trying to scrimp and save. But sometimes those plans don't go as you expect.
DO YOU THINK THOSE MOMENTS ARE ALWAYS LIFE'S CROSSROADS OR CAN IT BE IN A SIMPLE CHOICE LIKE TAKING A DIFFERENT ROUTE TO WORK?
I think so. My husband jokes that when I'm driving in London I'll always say, 'We haven't been down this road!' Literally and metaphorically, I will always do that. And it doesn't always work, you know? So you have to go 'Well, that didn't work,' but you don't beat yourself up about it because you don't learn a lot by success. You learn an enormous lot through failure. It's not that one tries to fail but they're the bits that I find useful—confronting but useful!
ARE THERE MOMENTS THAT HAVE CHANGED YOUR DESTINY?
Certainly meeting my husband and leaping off together into that unknown place that is marriage. And deciding to run the theater company. Also, I feel like I'm at a fork at the road at the moment. I think 'What's the next challenge for me?' I can continue to do this thing called acting or are there other adventures alive to me? So I'm kind of looking for those.
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