Kate Winslet’s daughter Mia Threapleton has said she thinks it’s a “misconception” she’s a nepo baby.
Mia, 24, is an actress, and her first big break was starring alongside her mother in Channel 4 drama I Am Ruth, where they played mother and daughter.
But, in a new interview, Mia has spoken about what it was like to grow up with the Oscar winner, and said she wasn’t exposed to acting at a young age.
“I feel like it's a misconception about me, considering who my mother is, that I grew up going to set or that I would know anything about this world because of her and what she does,” she told the Mail.
“That is not the case at all. I genuinely can count on not even two hands the amount of times I went to set as a kid. There were never scripts lying around the house.”
Mia’s dad is film director Jim Threapleton, Kate and Jim divorced in 2001, the year after Mia was born.
In another interview with Vanity Fair, Mia said her mother has backed her wanting to make a name for herself.
“She was incredibly supportive of my desire to want to do this on my own because that’s how she did it,” she said.
She also told the publication she first realised she wanted to be an actress at the age of 13, after previously realising she couldn't be a marine biologist as she “[couldn’t] do math” and was “rubbish at science”.
On telling her mother her dreams, Mia added: “She said, ‘Amazing, okay, I’m so excited for you,’ and I won’t ever forget what she said next.
“She said, ‘It’s really hard work, darling. It’s really hard work—but that’s why I love it.’”
Mia’s next big role is in Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme, which is premiering at the Cannes film festival, which also stars Benicio del Toro, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks and Richard Ayoade.
The actress also told Vanity Fair she was starstruck working with Tom, thanks to his role voicing the cowboy in Toy Story.
She said: “I just sat there and I put my hands under my legs. I’m thinking, It’s bloody Woody. Get out! What am I doing here? This is ridiculous.”
