Ocean's 8 star Blanchett, who was born and raised in Melbourne, lives on a sprawling $6.25 million British property, in a manor called Highwell House near Crowborough, south of London.
She and her husband, playwright Andrew Upton, live with their four children, Dashiell 18, Roman, 16, Ignatius, 12 and Edith, five.
Apart from near-death experiences in the garden, Blanchett's pandemic isolation has been as quiet as the rest of us, having taken a year off work to help her eldest son, Dashiell, through his final year of school.
"I took the year off ostensibly to be with him and support him through exam period," Blanchett told Gillard elsewhere in the conversation.
"And then all of this exam stuff evaporated (because of school closures) and I'm left with an 18-year-old who doesn't really want to have anything to do with me!
"So it's a little bit discombobulating but, it's a high-class problem, we're all well," she said, adding that isolating with her children has strengthened her long-held respect for the teaching profession.
