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Cate Blanchett’s kids don’t take much of an interest in their mom’s stardom.While being honored with the Chaplin Award at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall on Monday, the actress, 52, toldPage Sixthat her four kids are “disinterested” when it comes to how famous she is.However, theBlue Jasminestar says their lack of amusement is “in the best possible, healthiest way.“Blanchett, who shares sons Dashiell, 20, Roman, 18, and Ignatius, 14, plus daughter, Edith, 7, with husband Andrew Upton, added that her children have “no idea” as to why she’s getting her prestigious honor.“I told them, ‘Oh I’m going to New York for 36 hours. I’ll be back on Wednesday…’ One of them is getting an award at school, and they went, ‘Oh, OK, have a good time,’ " she shared.Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.Stephane Cardinale/Corbis/GettyBack in January, theDon’t Look Upstar chatted about her experiencehomeschooling her kids during the coronavirus lockdown.Blanchett said while she was “amazing for two weeks,” things quickly took a turn when it came to teaching her youngest child, Edith.“My older kids were fine, they would self direct. But I had to sort of do my 7-year-old, and I realized that I couldn’t even teach her grade 1 math and she sniffed that out after 14 days,” said theOcean’s 8star. “I was a dead duck. There was no respect there.“Blanchett then revealed she had to “dress up as her [daughter’s] teacher” and had to “put on her teacher’s voice” in order to homeschool Edith.“She wouldn’t start the classes until we had an array of stuffed animals, all of which had the names of all the people in her class,” she continued. “It felt like some weird kind of cross betweenThe Muppetsand MasterClass. It was quite traumatic actually.”
Cate Blanchett’s kids don’t take much of an interest in their mom’s stardom.
While being honored with the Chaplin Award at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall on Monday, the actress, 52, toldPage Sixthat her four kids are “disinterested” when it comes to how famous she is.
However, theBlue Jasminestar says their lack of amusement is “in the best possible, healthiest way.”
Blanchett, who shares sons Dashiell, 20, Roman, 18, and Ignatius, 14, plus daughter, Edith, 7, with husband Andrew Upton, added that her children have “no idea” as to why she’s getting her prestigious honor.
“I told them, ‘Oh I’m going to New York for 36 hours. I’ll be back on Wednesday…’ One of them is getting an award at school, and they went, ‘Oh, OK, have a good time,’ " she shared.
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Back in January, theDon’t Look Upstar chatted about her experiencehomeschooling her kids during the coronavirus lockdown.
Blanchett said while she was “amazing for two weeks,” things quickly took a turn when it came to teaching her youngest child, Edith.
“My older kids were fine, they would self direct. But I had to sort of do my 7-year-old, and I realized that I couldn’t even teach her grade 1 math and she sniffed that out after 14 days,” said theOcean’s 8star. “I was a dead duck. There was no respect there.”
Blanchett then revealed she had to “dress up as her [daughter’s] teacher” and had to “put on her teacher’s voice” in order to homeschool Edith.
“She wouldn’t start the classes until we had an array of stuffed animals, all of which had the names of all the people in her class,” she continued. “It felt like some weird kind of cross betweenThe Muppetsand MasterClass. It was quite traumatic actually.”
source: people.com
