Cate Blanchett is on the cover of AnOther Magazine's 25th -- Autumn/Winter 2013 -- edition, which hits stands on Thursday.

During the photo shoot, Blanchett wore Prada and portrayed 1920s androgynous cabaret performer Anita Berber in the pictures.

Blanchett sat down with Turner Prize-winning artist Douglas Gordan for the two-part interview in the magazine.

In the interview, Blanchett joked about dying frequently in films on her birthday:

"I have this thing on film where I do die quite a lot. And I suddenly realised, I was always dying on my birthday," she said. "I played an Irish journalist, Veronica Guerin, in a film that about two and a half people saw - usually two to three people see the films that I make - and I was sitting on a highway doing this scene where she got shot and it was my birthday. Then I got beaten up in another experience on film the next year on my birthday. And later I made a film with David Fincher called The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and I died then too, on my birthday, on a hospital bed - and that was a relief."

The interview took place just before the release of Blue Jasmine and Blanchett spoke about how she loved the chaos that her three sons - Dashiell, 11, Roman, nine, and five-year-old Ignatius -- bring to her life: "I'd have three more. It's the chaos of it. I love it. I am so unhappy being away from them. They are so funny and wicked."

The pictures are evocative of the kinds of dark and troubled characters Blanchett is known to portray on film. Blanchett's countenance enraptures with an arresting intensity behind a cold veneer, and her wardrobe brings in winter in shades of red and black.

The making of the cover was shot by Michael Cleary.

Watch it here: