Blanchett's husband predicted career end

Cate Blanchett has revealed that her husband once told her that she didn't have long left in the film industry.

The Elizabeth actress, who is married to playwright Andrew Upton, said that he predicted that she would only have five more years of movie success after making the 1998 historic movie.

Blanchett told W magazine: "My husband keeps me really honest. I remember him saying to me after I made Elizabeth, 'Sweetheart, you've probably got about five years'. He was preparing me for the time when the work dries up, as it invariably does.

"We're really open. I have friends - she's an actor-writer married to a director - and she was horrified when we said we were going to work together.

"She said they don't talk about work because they don't want to venture into the territory of being criticised by your partner. But I know what to do with criticism."

Blanchett and Upton have three sons together.