Video Length 25 minutes 35 seconds
The double Academy Award winner discusses how advocating for refugees with the UNHCR has modified her outlook.
With an performing profession spanning greater than 30 years, Cate Blanchett is taken into account one of many biggest actors of her era. However she additionally performs essential non-fictional roles.
In 2016, Blanchett turned a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations refugee company UNHCR.
She has since travelled to Bangladesh, the place she met Rohingya Muslims who fled persecution in Myanmar; Lebanon, the place she met Syrians pressured from their properties by warfare; and most lately to Jordan, which hosts greater than 743,000 refugees.
We caught up together with her to debate the UN’s operations and the way the refugees she met have modified her perspective.
Cate Blanchett talks to Al Jazeera.
