Kate Winslet says she does not allow children to use social media at home as she attends Steve Jobs premiere

The actress said she is not strict but that her children are not on social media at home
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Emma Powell19 October 2015
The Weekender

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Kate Winslet has revealed that she does not allow her children to use social media at home.

Winslet, 40, was speaking at the premiere of her latest film Steve Jobs which is based on the technology innovator and focuses on the launches of the Macintosh in 1984, the NeXT Cube in 1988 and the iMac in 1998.

Talking about her own experience with technology Winslet told BBC Newsbeat: "I'm terrible. I am the least techie person you will ever meet, I'm rubbish.”

She said that she is "not strict," with the children’s technology use but that they do not have social media in the house.

“You have to have rules I think and we certainly have those, yes.

"We're not a big deviced-up household. We don't have any social media, nothing like that.

Winslet – who cut an elegant figure in an off the shoulder dress – was joined at the premiere by her co-star Michael Fassbender and director Danny Boyle as they brought the curtain down on the 2015 BFI London Film Festival.

Fassbender – who plays the late co-founder of Apple – said he was hesitant about taking on the role.

"It did make me hesitate,” he said. “I was worried about how their late father, husband and friend will be portrayed and that weighed on my conscience.

"There was a responsibility for sure. But I have to get on with my job. This wasn't a biopic, it was a dramatisation so all the clues I needed was in the script.

"I approached it with utmost respect for Jobs and his family and by no means did not set out to betray them. If they do see it, I hope they are not hurt by it because that's not my intention."

Steve Jobs is released in the UK on November 13.

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