Cate Blanchett originally had some other plans for the Lord of the Rings series! The 51-year-old actress, who played Galadriel in the Peter Jackson movie series, originally pitched a secret cameo role to the director, she revealed on Marc Maron‘s WTF podcast. PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Cate Blanchett “For me it was super quick,” she said of her experience filming on set. “There’s not too many chicks in the Tolkien universe.
I loved it so much and I did say to Peter and [co-producer and co-writer] Fran [Walsh], they were doing a banquet scene with a whole lot of dwarves.
I always wanted to play the bearded lady, so I asked them, ‘Could I be your hairy wife woman when you pan across the banquet table of dwarves?’ Of course I
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