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Upton and wife Cate Blanchett / Pic: AFP Source:
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The Daily Telegraph reports
They are a Tinseltown classic odd couple. He a dishevelled playwright, she a red-carpet glamazon.
But Cate Blanchett has described for the first time the day she met husband of 15 years Andrew Upton and how it was "love at first sight".
The Oscar-winning actress - who was not able to attend last night's Sydney premiere of The Hobbit - said she fell almost instantly for Upton after meeting him on the Australian production of Russian play The Seagull at the Belvoir Theatre in 1997.
"The most romantic moment in my life was meeting my husband," she told The Sun newspaper.
"Love at first sight? Yes, it was. He proposed two weeks after we met. A straight, old-fashioned proposal."
The pair - who have three children Dashiell, 11, Roman, 8, and Ignatius, 4 - were married in December that year, just before Blanchett started filming her breakout role in Elizabeth, for which she got an Academy Award nomination. "We didn't have time for a honeymoon because I had to leave Australia for England to film Elizabeth," she said. "It meant I was on my own (as a newlywed), in places like Newcastle.
"So we thought we'd stretch it out over the next 50 years in instalments.
"We have taken it when we can. I did the film The Talented Mr Ripley in Italy and only worked about two days a week during a Roman summer, so that was a fantastic place to catch up on romance."
Blanchett, who lives in Hunters Hill, has eight film projects in the mix for next year.
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