“Lord of the Rings” actor Cate Blanchett said she did the film to work with director Peter Jackson. She added: “Women don’t get paid as much as you think they do.”
Cate Blanchett said “no one got paid” for the first “The Lord of the Rings” movie. The trilogy went on to make almost $3 billion worldwide.
The Australian actor played the elf Galadriel in the franchise based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s beloved fantasy novels.
She starred alongside some of the best-known actors of the last few decades, including Ian McKellen, Christopher Lee, Hugo Weaving, Sean Bean, Viggo Mortensen, Andy Serkis, and Orlando Bloom.
But the Oscar-winner told “Watch What Happens Live” that the star-studded cast didn’t get paid much for “The Fellowship of the Ring” in 1999.
