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Kate Winslet talks about returning to delicatessen job after first Hollywood acting role

By Hugh Fort in Employment News, posted April 26, 2021

The Reading born actress was speaking on the Gaby Roslin podcast getreading

Kate Winslet has revealed she headed straight to her job at a delicatessen in her home town Reading after she finished filming her first movie.

The star spoke of life as a jobbing actress when she was a teenager. After my first film Heavenly Creatures, I was 17 when I was filming it, I went right back to the job in the delicatessen I worked in. As that’s what you do when you’re a jobbing actor, it’s very hard to make a good living from acting, certainly when you’re starting out.

Winslet said her father who was also an actor had to do a number of jobs including a postman and delivering Christmas trees to make ends meet.

Winslet revealed that since of age of five, all she wanted to be an actress.

She said I just couldn’t have imagined ever doing anything else. I don’t know why I felt so, so determined that that was what I wanted to do, I just didn’t consider anything else. I don’t think I really understood what it meant, I certainly didn’t think I would be in films or anything. I just sort of hoped that I might be on the stage or something.

The actress added I was in an episode of Casualty when I was 16, and I remember thinking, ‘God, wow, if I could just get an episode of things here and there and maybe do a bit of theatre', I always thought I would have a part-time job as well.

Now the actress is an Oscar winner thanks to her role in the film Titanic and she discussed her fans saying It feels like a responsibility but in a lovely way, because if people are comfortable enough to say something complimentary about my work or me as a person, I really do appreciate that because I care very much.

Not only about my job, but I also really care about being a steady, decent human being, and I think you can often tell whether a person is a good person or not, or whether they’re out for number one, and certainly with my job that I do, I really try and really consider just all forms of humanity.

Source: BerkshireNews