Cate Blanchett Keeps Family Away From Work
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CATE Blanchett wanted to “quarantine” her family away from her work.
The Robin Hood actress — who has sons Dashiell, eight, Roman, six, and two-year-old Ignatius with her theater director husband Andrew Upton — admits she initially tried to keep her children out of the spotlight, but as they have got older, she likes the boys to take an interest in her work.
“It’s a very, very difficult job to do with children, and I think in our first year we were trying to quarantine them from what we do so their lives were hermetically sealed and they didn’t feel the impact of our work,” she said.
“In the end what we do is actually really interesting for children: it’s about dressing up, creating characters, telling stories. It’s social and it’s often nocturnal and, while they have to go to school, they’re old enough now – particularly the two older ones – to bring them into that.”
The 41-year-old beauty also revealed she tries to educate her children about making sacrifices and appreciating the things they have.
“Every single time you go to the supermarket with your children they come up to you and say, ‘We need this, we need this’,” Cate said. “You say, ‘Do you really need that? OK, you can choose three things you absolutely need in this whole supermarket that sells about 7000 products.’ ”
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