Kate Winslet: people think I’m lying when I say my family was poor

Kate Winslet has said it annoys her that people think she had a privileged upbringing just because she’s well-spoken.

She told Marie Claire magazine recently: “People think I’m lying [about us being poor]…

“My dad was very much a struggling actor and spent more of his life as a postman, as a member of a Tarmac firm, as a van driver. He’d sell Christmas trees. Anything. That was my dad.

“We had these dreadful second-hand cars that would always die a death, or we’d go on holiday to Cornwall, come back and it would have been nicked.

“It’s like a Joe Orton farce, my family. Honestly, it was hand-me-down shoes and 10p pocket money on a Saturday that didn’t go up until I was 11.”