This Week's Cover: Oscar front-runners Cate Blanchett and Lupita Nyong'o sit for candid chat
This week’s cover story features a sit-down with two Oscar hopefuls — the veteran Cate Blanchett and the newcomer Lupita Nyong’o. The two discuss the never-ending award season, what they love most about their jobs and their hopes for the future.
Blanchett, who has spent the past six years running a theater company in her hometown of Sydney, Australia, discusses her fraught relationship with her chosen profession.
“I’m constantly running away from acting,” she says.
“I have to get seduced back into it each time.”
Nyong’o, meanwhile, discusses her career aspirations moving forward.
“In many ways, me being on the scene is doing for little girls everywhere what Oprah Winfrey and Whoopi Goldberg did for me,” she says.
“My world exploded by them being on screen. Hopefully I will inspire and be meaningful to other people. But I can’t take on other people’s dreams for me. I can only dream for myself.” 
