Berlin, Feb. 10 (Reuters): Playing a Nazi collaborator in Steven Soderbergh’s post-war noir thriller The Good German has whetted Oscar-winner Cate Blanchett’s appetite for more villainous roles.

“I got my taste of playing a bit of a baddie in The Good German,” the Australian actress said. “Now I’d like to play an out and out villain.”

Blanchett, 37, plays the tragic character Lena Brandt opposite George Clooney and Tobey Maguire in Soderbergh’s black-and-white film of betrayal in bombed-out 1945 Berlin.

Her character helps the Nazis during the war to avoid deportation, then is forced into prostitution to survive once the fighting ends and the victorious Russians and Americans take control of the German capital.