Cate Blanchett thought her “destiny” was to be a nun when she was a toddler.

The Oscar-winning actress remembered seeing ‘The Bother With Angels’ when she was younger and the story of the “naughty” lead character resonated together with her as a result of she was “all the time in bother” herself so she imagined she’d find yourself following the identical path.

She advised Empire journal: “As a toddler, I got here throughout this movie with Hayley Mills as this actually naughty renegade, expelled from each faculty and she or he was despatched to a convent.

“She grew to become mates with a deeply non secular woman and on the finish turns into an provoke.

“I used to be all the time in bother, despatched out into the hall.

“On the age of eight, I simply utterly fell into this movie and thought, ‘Wow, perhaps that’s my destiny.’ “

The ‘New Boy’ actress turned to faith herself after her father handed away when she was 10 years previous, however when the church didn’t fill the “large void” she had, she discovered solace in nature as a substitute.

She stated: “My father died once I was 10, which clearly left a large void.

“My grandmother used to go to church and I’d go together with her each week within the hope that the hand of God would come down and say, ‘Little woman, he’s with me. He’s having enjoyable and he’s protected. You’ll see him once more.’

“That didn’t occur… So I rejected it and bought on my bike each Sunday and rode out to the countryside.

“I linked extra to nature.”