Uma Thurman was my fairy godmother when she let me live in her cockroach infested New York mansion
My dad was loved by so many... it is incredibly special & comforting ACTRESS KATE TALKING ABOUT FATHER RICHARD
“complicated for sure”, with “a lot of ups and downs”. Kate was reported to have lived with Canadian musician Goody Grace, 24, during lockdown.
She says on the podcast: “I haven’t quite settled on a type, I’ve kind of gone all over the map. I’ve really been aiming for a nice doctor my whole life. I took a quite long detour into comedians though… I do like a laugh and a dash of mental illness. I respect it.” Pearl Harbour star Kate also opens up about the pain of losing a famous parent. Her dad Richard Beckinsale – Ronnie Barker’s co-star in TV sitcom Porridge – died of a heart attack in 1979, at 31.
Kate was five and says losing a parent is “a cataclysmic event”.
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She says: “You’re five, your father suddenly drops dead... and you don’t know that it’s not normal. That’s the only thing I’ve really known.
“I remember the next day going back to school and this boy pushed something across the table and it was a bookmark with a prayer on it and all I felt was I wanted to smash his face into the table, which is so awful because he was being sweet. I just remember that feeling of rage. Everyone was very nice but it is a weird feeling.”
Kate says the public outpouring of grief for her father chimes with Princes William and Harry coming to terms with mass mourning when their mother Princess Diana died in 1997 – though “on a much, much bigger scale”.
She says: “There is something incredibly special and comforting about how much other people loved him. It was hard at the beginning because it did feel you were having this very personal, horrible crisis and so was everyone else but you didn’t know them. “That felt a bit weird. People would talk about how terrible they felt that they had lost him, but then say, ‘Oh, but you probably don’t remember anything, do you because you were a child.’ That would really upset me. I found that really difficult.”