Kate Winslet on getting her big break: I had to walk home from work

Kate Winslet has revealed she had to walk home from work after she found out she’d got her big break.

The Little Children star was working in a sandwich shop when she found out she’d been cast in Peter Jackson’s Heavenly Creatures in 1994.

She told Parade magazine recently: “I made sandwiches. I cut up cheese. I ground coffee. I loved it there.

“I was in the middle of making a sandwich [when I got the call] and I had to leave work pretty much immediately.

“Somebody else had to finish making this poor guy’s sandwich, because I was hysterical. Then I had to walk home, because I had forgotten to collect my wages before I left, and I had no bus fare.”

Kate received critical acclaim for the film and has been nominated for acting Academy Awards on five separate occasions since then.