Cate Blanchett suffered a head injury Wednesday after she was hit by a prop during a live performance in her native Australia, according to reports.

The actress, 40, was performing in A Streetcar Named Desire at The Sydney Theatre Company when cast member Joel Edgerton threw a radio, as per the script, and it hit Blanchett on the head.

An audience member tells the Sydney Morning Herald that “she had blood streaming down the back of her head and blood on the back of her neck.”

Adds the witness, “She acted for about another 30 seconds, then ran into what we thought was the next scene, but before we knew it the lights were turned on and we were told there were technical difficulties and everyone had to evacuate the Sydney Theatre Company.”

A rep for Blanchett has yet to issue a statement.

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Sirs Anthony Hopkins and director Ridley Scott are teaming up to bring Hannibal Lecter back to the big screen.

The actor will reprise his cannibalistic serial killer for the fourth time in a second sequel to the 1991 hit film The Silence of the Lambs, for which he won a Best Actor Oscar. Cate Blanchett has been rumored to take over the role of Clarice Starling, after Jodie Foster pulled out to focus on directing Flora Plum.

A spokesperson for film-makers Universal says, “Hopkins and Scott are both very committed. We like what we’ve got, and the revised script is really, really good.”

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Cate Blanchett is looking for a few good Merry Men.

Per Variety, the Oscar winner has signed on to play Maid Marian in the tentatively titled Nottingham, director Ridley Scott’s big-screen reimagining of the Robin Hood story opposite Russell Crowe.

Blanchett will replace Sienna Miller, who dropped out due to “creative differences.”

Crowe will play the lead, which, depending on how the script turns out, could either be Robin Hood or a reinvented Sheriff of Nottingham.

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The $130 million romantic adventure starts production in April in London for a 2010 release.

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Cate Blanchett says her marriage of 11 years could be over if she goes under the knife.

The actress — who currently stars in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button with Brad Pitt — tells Vanity Fair: “I haven’t done anything, but who knows. Andrew [Upton] said he’d divorce me if I did anything.”

But that doesn’t mean she’d never mess with her famous face.

“I’m not a spokesperson against the world of injectables,” The 39-year-old actress says. “If you grow up in an environment where your mother gets you a boob job when you turn 18, what hope is there? But I didn’t grow up in that world.

“The reason I went to train as an actor was that I was interested in it for the long haul,” she adds. “You can become very self-obsessed, but you’ve got to keep looking outward.”

Blanchett says her body isn’t the same after the birth of their three sons: Dashiell, 7; Roman, 3 and Ignatius, 7 months.

“When you’ve had children, your body changes; there’s history to it. I like the evolution of that history; I’m fortunate to be with somebody who likes the evolution of that history.”

“I think it’s important to not eradicate it. I look at someone’s face and I see the work before I see the person….” she adds.

Plus, Blanchett says plastic surgery doesn’t stave “off the inventible” aging process.

“If you’re doing it out of fear, that fear’s still going to be seen through your eyes,” she says. “The windows to your soul, they say.”

Upton, a playwright, doesn’t mind his wife’s looks, Blanchett says, although he doesn’t focus on them.

“I’m not a trophy. He likes the vessel, but he also wants to make sure the vessel is full.”

Blanchett says she wouldn’t rule out having more children either.

“Who knows? Don’t close those doors. The world is very overpopulated, but we do make nice ones,” she says. “They all look like Andrew. To say he has dominant genes would be an understatement.”

In addition to expanding her brood, Blanchett also has a retirement plan.

“I think I just want to garden — or kill some plants, in my case,” she says.

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