Do they (her children Mia, 8. and Joe, 5) realise that you’re famous?
No, not yet. And I want them to come to understand it in their own way, when I feel they’re ready. At the moment they think that Mummy’s job is making the voice of a rat in a film [Flushed Away], and that’s great. They don’t watch me on TV. If I’m on a talk show, I’ll remind Sam to turn the telly off. We don’t have magazines in the house and, if I’m walking down the street with them and I see myself on a film poster, I turn down the other street. So you have no desire to have your private life paraded in public like Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt Although I don’t know them, I do think about their situation. They’re like a walking soap opera, and the public wants to know what’s going to happen next. I didn’t choose this profession because I wanted to be famous. I come from a family of actors, who have often struggled, so I always thought I’d be lucky if I even got a job. I’m grateful for my success because of the freedom it’s given me as an actress. The downside is how much more publicly
