10 Unbelievable Movie Cameos You Probably Missed

8. Cate Blanchett €“- Hot Fuzz

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If you didn't know that it was Blanchett behind the face mask, you would never have known that it was the Australian star of the Lord of the Rings playing Janine,Angel's presumably long-suffering ex-girlfriend who dumps him for another member of her forensic unit.

Director Edgar Wright later revealed that Blanchett was given the cameo role as because she had expressed herself a fan of Shaun of the Dead.

In an interview with Collider some time later, the actor herself playfully suggested that it took months and months of detailed preparation to really get under the skin of her character.

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