Jamie Lee Curtis 'Didn't Know' She'd Become Friends with Cate Blanchett onBorderlandsSet: 'She's a Beautiful Person'

Mar. 15, 2025

Cate Blanchett and Jamie Lee Curtis on March 4, 2023.Photo:Tommaso Boddi/GettyJamie Lee Curtiswalked away from makingBorderlandswith something unexpected.At an event for the upcoming video game adaptation on Tuesday, August 6, Curtis, 65, toldThe Hollywood Reporterthat she and costarCate Blanchettgrew close while making the movie together.“What I didn’t know is we’d become friends,” she told the outlet of working with the two-timeAcademy Awardwinner. “You hope you will, but you know, you make movies, you travel a lot, people travel all over the world. I had a great experience with her and it’s been lovely to become friends with someone who you’ve admired for such a long time. We’ve had some really intimate moments together and she’s a beautiful person.”Curtis previously shared in a July 17Instagram postthat the opportunity to work with Blanchett, 55, was “the sole reason I left my family and moved to Budapest in the middle of Covid” to film the new movie withThanksgivingfilmmakerEli Rothand an ensemble cast that also includesKevin Hart,Ariana Greenblatt, Florian Munteanu andJack Blackin a voice role.Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, Ariana Greenblatt, Florian Munteanu and Jamie Lee Curtis in Borderlands.Courtesy of Lionsgate"She’s a great actress and role model and feminist and devoted, humanitarian and her work with @refugees is a great example to me of the marriage between art and ACTIVISM," Curtis added of Blanchett and herhumanitarian work off the camerain that Instagram caption.Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer​​, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.Gearbox Software, the video game developer that makes the popularBorderlandsgame series,announcedthat the movie adaptation completed filming all the way back in June 2021. As a result, the fruits of Blanchett and Curtis' friendship have been evident for years now. The paircelebrated their respective Oscar nominationstogether in January 2023 while working on re-shoots for the movie and eventook a road tripto the 2023 Palm Springs International Film Awards that same month, where Curtis presented Blanchett with the festival’s Desert Palm achievement award.Cate Blanchett and Jamie Lee Curtis on Jan. 5, 2023.Amy Sussman/Getty for Palm Springs International Film Society"I made a condition that we drive together which immediately became an achievement competition of its own as [Blanchett] claims to be a great driver and I had to remind her that I am born and raised in the f—— city of angels," Curtis told an audience of carpooling with Blanchett at the time.Borderlandsis in theaters Aug. 9.

Cate Blanchett and Jamie Lee Curtis on March 4, 2023.Photo:Tommaso Boddi/Getty

Tommaso Boddi/Getty

Jamie Lee Curtiswalked away from makingBorderlandswith something unexpected.At an event for the upcoming video game adaptation on Tuesday, August 6, Curtis, 65, toldThe Hollywood Reporterthat she and costarCate Blanchettgrew close while making the movie together.“What I didn’t know is we’d become friends,” she told the outlet of working with the two-timeAcademy Awardwinner. “You hope you will, but you know, you make movies, you travel a lot, people travel all over the world. I had a great experience with her and it’s been lovely to become friends with someone who you’ve admired for such a long time. We’ve had some really intimate moments together and she’s a beautiful person.”Curtis previously shared in a July 17Instagram postthat the opportunity to work with Blanchett, 55, was “the sole reason I left my family and moved to Budapest in the middle of Covid” to film the new movie withThanksgivingfilmmakerEli Rothand an ensemble cast that also includesKevin Hart,Ariana Greenblatt, Florian Munteanu andJack Blackin a voice role.Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, Ariana Greenblatt, Florian Munteanu and Jamie Lee Curtis in Borderlands.Courtesy of Lionsgate"She’s a great actress and role model and feminist and devoted, humanitarian and her work with @refugees is a great example to me of the marriage between art and ACTIVISM," Curtis added of Blanchett and herhumanitarian work off the camerain that Instagram caption.Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer​​, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.Gearbox Software, the video game developer that makes the popularBorderlandsgame series,announcedthat the movie adaptation completed filming all the way back in June 2021. As a result, the fruits of Blanchett and Curtis' friendship have been evident for years now. The paircelebrated their respective Oscar nominationstogether in January 2023 while working on re-shoots for the movie and eventook a road tripto the 2023 Palm Springs International Film Awards that same month, where Curtis presented Blanchett with the festival’s Desert Palm achievement award.Cate Blanchett and Jamie Lee Curtis on Jan. 5, 2023.Amy Sussman/Getty for Palm Springs International Film Society"I made a condition that we drive together which immediately became an achievement competition of its own as [Blanchett] claims to be a great driver and I had to remind her that I am born and raised in the f—— city of angels," Curtis told an audience of carpooling with Blanchett at the time.Borderlandsis in theaters Aug. 9.

Jamie Lee Curtiswalked away from makingBorderlandswith something unexpected.

At an event for the upcoming video game adaptation on Tuesday, August 6, Curtis, 65, toldThe Hollywood Reporterthat she and costarCate Blanchettgrew close while making the movie together.

“What I didn’t know is we’d become friends,” she told the outlet of working with the two-timeAcademy Awardwinner. “You hope you will, but you know, you make movies, you travel a lot, people travel all over the world. I had a great experience with her and it’s been lovely to become friends with someone who you’ve admired for such a long time. We’ve had some really intimate moments together and she’s a beautiful person.”

Curtis previously shared in a July 17Instagram postthat the opportunity to work with Blanchett, 55, was “the sole reason I left my family and moved to Budapest in the middle of Covid” to film the new movie withThanksgivingfilmmakerEli Rothand an ensemble cast that also includesKevin Hart,Ariana Greenblatt, Florian Munteanu andJack Blackin a voice role.

Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, Ariana Greenblatt, Florian Munteanu and Jamie Lee Curtis in Borderlands.Courtesy of Lionsgate

Courtesy of Lionsgate

“She’s a great actress and role model and feminist and devoted, humanitarian and her work with @refugees is a great example to me of the marriage between art and ACTIVISM,” Curtis added of Blanchett and herhumanitarian work off the camerain that Instagram caption.

Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer​​, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.

Gearbox Software, the video game developer that makes the popularBorderlandsgame series,announcedthat the movie adaptation completed filming all the way back in June 2021. As a result, the fruits of Blanchett and Curtis' friendship have been evident for years now. The paircelebrated their respective Oscar nominationstogether in January 2023 while working on re-shoots for the movie and eventook a road tripto the 2023 Palm Springs International Film Awards that same month, where Curtis presented Blanchett with the festival’s Desert Palm achievement award.

Cate Blanchett and Jamie Lee Curtis on Jan. 5, 2023.Amy Sussman/Getty for Palm Springs International Film Society

“I made a condition that we drive together which immediately became an achievement competition of its own as [Blanchett] claims to be a great driver and I had to remind her that I am born and raised in the f—— city of angels,” Curtis told an audience of carpooling with Blanchett at the time.

Borderlandsis in theaters Aug. 9.

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