Cate Blanchett is not interested in looking 25 again

Cate Blanchett insists she has no interest in looking younger than her 41 years. The Aussie actress has sworn off getting plastic surgery to fight the aging process.

“There’s so much pressure and fear to do all that surgery stuff but I’m really not interested in looking 25 again,” she declared.

“There’s a temptation when you get older to put on more make-up, but I try to keep mine looking natural. Even on screen – if you’ve got heaps on, it acts as a mask and as an actor, it’s all about taking off a mask and revealing emotion.”

Cate — who has sons Dashiell, eight, Roman, six, and two-year-old Ignatius with her theater director husband Andrew Upton — recently admitted she initially tried to keep her children out of the spotlight, but as they have got older, she likes the boys to take an interest in her work.

“It’s a very, very difficult job to do with children, and I think in our first year we were trying to quarantine them from what we do so their lives were hermetically sealed and they didn’t feel the impact of our work,” she said.

“In the end what we do is actually really interesting for children: it’s about dressing up, creating characters, telling stories. It’s social and it’s often nocturnal and, while they have to go to school, they’re old enough now – particularly the two older ones – to bring them into that.”

Blanchett also revealed she tries to educate her children about making sacrifices and appreciating the things they have.

“Every single time you go to the supermarket with your children they come up to you and say, ‘We need this, we need this’,” Cate said. “You say, ‘Do you really need that? OK, you can choose three things you absolutely need in this whole supermarket that sells about 7000 products.’ ”