Aussie Hollywood star delivers Super Bowl sledge and AFL reveal
Aussie Hollywood A-lister Cate Blanchett has once again shown you can take the woman out of Australia, but you can’t take the Australia out of the woman. Having been born in Melbourne and cut her chops on Australian stages, Blanchett shows she’s as Aussie as it comes. The 53-year-old has shunned the soccer and gridiron brands of football, calling AFL “real football” on Jimmy Kimmel Live last night.
Kimmel asked Blanchett if she watched the Super Bowl.
“To be honest, it’s a gladiatorial sport, where I came from we have a football that’s Aussie rules, footy,” Blanchett began.
“They have a similar kind of ball except they don’t have the protection.”
Kimmel asked: “They don’t even have sleeves right?”
Blanchett: “They wear shorts and tank tops. And my uncle used to play professionally for Essendon. And my cousin played in Tasmania where it’s so hardcore they played on gravel.”
Kimmel: “Is that true?”
Blanchett: “Yeah. I mean the Super Bowl, they take a few hits, but you go to Tasmania and they play real football.”
Kimmel: “On gravel, that’s not kidding around.”
Blanchett: “They lose a lot of players but … it’s why the population’s really small.”
Kimmel said he believes Americans see Australian’s like the rest of the world sees Americans “that they’ve got a screw loose and are really flirting with danger at all times”.
“They’re out there, they’ve got no helmet’s on, they’re killing each other in the same way, they’re kicking a ball, they’re totally exposed,” Kimmel said.
Blanchett: “And the hole in the Ozone layer is right over Australia so it’s really, it a very very difficult game. So that was nothing last night Patrick.”
