Still, she frets that she’s damaging them, not doing enough for them, even living nearly 10,000 miles away from all these cameras and all this mayhem.
On her “Tonight Show” appearance, Ms. Blanchett had a blast. But she was still nervous the entire time that she was going to embarrass her oldest son, whom she said “bears the brunt somewhat at an all-boys school when his mother says or does something.”
“When my son heard I was playing a lesbian, he went, ‘ugh,’” she said. “There was no judgment on the creative decision. He could just see what Wednesday at school was going to be like.”
Her time here was now running out. Ms. Blanchett had a baby waiting for her back upstairs, Edith, a little girl whom she and her husband adopted this year. Plus, there was another flight to catch. She was due in New Delhi on Friday, where she had a speaking engagement at Tina Brown’s “Women in The World” summit in association with The New York Times.