Cate Blanchett: please let me play a Bond villain However, Blanchett said she was unsure how prominent her roles will be. "I can't guarantee I'll end up in [the final cut], as is his wont," she said of the director's methods. Famously, Adrien Brody believed he had the lead role in Malick's The Thin Red Line, only to attend a screening and find his performance had been cut to two lines. Elsewhere in the interview, the Australian actress revealed that her husband, playwright Andrew Upton, has a novel line in gifts. "My husband went through a phase of giving me vacuum cleaners, sewing machines and Mixmasters," she laughed. It's ironic. He is encouraging me to develop a hobby, I think. But she added: "An actress once advised me, "Make sure you do your own laundry - it will keep you honest."" Blanchett lived in Britain from 1997-2006 until she and Upton moved to Australia, where they run the Sydney Theatre Company and raise their children Dashiell, 10, Roman, seven, and three-year-old Ignatius. She is returning this April to appear in Big and Small at the Barbican, as part of the London 2012 Festival. It is her first London theatre role in 13 years and one that has earned her great acclaim in Australia, where one critic hailed it as "the performance of Blanchett's career." :: The full interview is in the April issue of Harper's Bazaar, on sale Thursday