CATE Blanchett is to film the JFK conspiracy thriller Blackbird in Sydney early next year. It will be the first feature the Oscar-winning actress has shot in Australia since Cabramatta crime drama Little Fish, with Sam Neill and Hugo Weaving, in 2005. The harbour city will double as Los Angeles in the film, written and directed by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet, about a woman who discovers some dark family secrets when she attends the funeral of her grandfather, a Hollywood visual effects artist who moonlighted for US special ops agencies. "We've been talking for a couple of years about doing this, so I'm thrilled it's actually happening,'' said Blanchett on the eve of the Australian premiere of Woody Allen's latest film, Blue Jasmine, for which she is being widely tipped for an Oscar nomination. Blackbird will be filmed in Sydney so Blanchett can be near her family - the 44-year-old actor has three sons with husband Andrew Upton - although some exteriors might be shot in LA. "(David Mamet) wouldn't be coming here if the crews weren't magnificent,'' Blanchett said. Her first major stage role was opposite Geoffrey Rush in the acclaimed 1992 Sydney Theatre production of Mamet's Oleanna, for which she won a critics award for best newcomer. 灰姑娘這幾天就開機了 黑鳥明年初 那鹽女呢？ 好擔心鹽女又流標 -- 【Blue Jasmine】凱特布蘭琪【第一女主角】 ～ＣＡＴＥ ＢＬＡＮＣＨＥＴＴ～ --

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