Cate Blanchett is opening up about retiring from acting — a move the two-time Oscar winner is “seriously” considering.

The “Black Bag” star, 55, revealed in a new interview that she’s genuinely contemplating taking her final bow after more than 30 years in the business.

“My family roll their eyes every time I say it, but I mean it. I am serious about giving up acting,” Blanchett told UK outlet The Standard in an interview published Tuesday. “(There are) a lot of things I want to do with my life.”

Blanchett said she’s “not that person” seen on talk shows or in interviews.

“You see sound bites of things you’ve said, pulled out and italicized. … I make more sense in motion,” the “Lord of the Rings” star explained. “It’s been a long time to remotely get comfortable with the idea of being photographed.”

Blanchett admitted she’s “always felt like I’m on the periphery of things” and as a result, is “always surprised when I belong anywhere. … I’ve spent a lifetime getting comfortable with the feeling of being uncomfortable.”

After making her screen debut in 1990’s “Kaboria,” credited as Blonde Cheerleader, Blanchett first took to the stage two years later at the National Institute of Dramatic Art, in her native Australia.

By the end of the decade, the statuesque star was in a different stratosphere, having earned her first Academy Award nomination for her 1998 portrayal of a young Elizabeth I — a role that, a decade later, earned Blanchett yet another nod for “Elizabeth: The Golden Age.”

Blanchett has been nominated for eight Oscars, most recently in 2023 for playing a composer-conductor on the wrong end of cancel culture in “Tár.” She’s won two Oscars to date, for Martin Scorsese’s “The Aviator” and Woody Allen’s “Blue Jasmine.”

Blanchett’s impressive career also extends to blockbusters — the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the “Lord of the Rings” and “Hobbit” films, the “How to Train Your Dragon” franchise — and television. She recently starred in Alfonso Cuarón’s Apple TV+ thriller, “Disclaimer.”

According to Blanchett’s IMDb, she has two projects on the horizon, the star-studded sci-flick “Alpha Gang,” which is currently in production, and Jim Jarmusch’s “Father, Mother, Sister, Brother.” The latter is slated for later this year.

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‘Snow White’ banned in Lebanon due to Israeli star Gal Gadot

NEW YORK — The controversial live-action “Snow White” has been banned in Lebanon, where star Gal Gadot is on the “Israel boycott list.”

Disney’s widely panned new musical, which stars Gadot as the Evil Queen and Rachel Zegler as the titular princess, was banned due to a directive by Lebanon’s Interior Minister Ahmad Al-Hajjar, according to Variety.

There are conflicting reports regarding the basis for the ban.

Italia Films, which deals with distribution of Disney films in the Middle East, told Variety that no films starring the 39-year-old Israeli “Wonder Woman” actor, who served in the Israel Defense Forces, have ever been released in Lebanon.

Contrary to what local Lebanese media has reported, Italia Films says such a ban against Gadot’s films is not a new development amid the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict, which the Lebanese Health Ministry. Multiple civilians were reported dead in Israeli airstrikes across Lebanon late last month.

Italia also says the ban against films starring the “Death on the Nile” performer predates her outspoken support of her homeland, particularly in the wake of Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attacks on Israel, which killed an estimated 1,200 civilians, including many women and children. Over 40 Americans were also killed and 251 people, including 12 Americans, were taken hostage.

Gadot gave a keynote address last month at an Anti-Defamation League summit on antisemitism, where she accepted the International Leadership Award, and said that prior to Oct. 7, she “never thought of myself as being where I came from. … It didn’t define me.

“Never did I imagine that on the streets of the United States, and different cities around the world, we would see people not condemning Hamas, but celebrating, justifying and cheering on a massacre of Jews,” said Gadot.

Reuters reported last month that Israel’s offensive in Gaza, following the Oct. 7 attacks, has left more than 50,000 Palestinians dead, nearly a third of them minors.

Among the many controversies surrounding the new “Snow White,” including what many have decried as a “woke” approach to “the Seven Dwarfs,” are the politicized remarks by star Zegler, including those to “free Palestine” and another hoping that “Trump supporters and Trump voters and Trump himself never know peace.”

Variety reports that due to starring Israeli actor Shira Haas, “Captain America: Brave New World” was also banned in Lebanon.

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Kim Kardashian will testify in a trial over a 2016 robbery that targeted her in Paris

PARIS — Kim Kardashian will testify in person at an upcoming trial over a 2016 heist in Paris in which armed robbers allegedly tied her up and locked her in a bathroom while they stole millions of dollars' worth of jewelry, her lawyer said Tuesday.

Ten suspects accused of armed robbery, kidnapping or other criminal charges are going on trial in Paris from April 28 through May 23. The October 2016 robbery took place in a Paris apartment where Kardashian was staying for Paris Fashion Week.

“We can confirm that Ms. Kardashian will be testifying in person at the upcoming French criminal trial involving the 2016 incident in which she was bound and robbed at gunpoint by a number of masked assailants,” lawyer Michael Rhodes said in a statement provided to the AP.

The reality TV star and entrepreneur has ″tremendous appreciation and admiration for the French judicial system″ and ″wishes for the trial to proceed in an orderly fashion in accordance with French law and with respect for all parties to the case,” the lawyer said.

From combined wire services