Suki Waterhouse: 'My dad’s teaching me about Churchill for film role'

Suki Waterhouse says her “history-mad” father is helping to prepare her for a forthcoming role in a major Winston Churchill biopic.

The Londoner, 24, who quit formal education to pursue a modelling career aged 16, is taking lessons from her father to make up for her “bad schooling”.

She will star with Stanley Tucci, Brian Cox and Miranda Richardson in the film, Churchill, which begins shooting in June.

Waterhouse, who also starred in this year’s Pride And Prejudice And Zombies, said: “Luckily, I’ve got my dad. He’s one of the most well-read people.

"If you could see our living room — we’ve got masks and Greek and Roman helmets and all this stuff.

“He loves helping me so I’ll just do crash courses with him. It makes up for my bad schooling.”

She also revealed how she had overcome her insecurities about moving from the catwalk to the screen without any formal acting training.

She said: “Making a movie is like a huge mountain you have to climb — at the beginning you meet all these new people and you don’t know what they are going to be like.

"It’s this huge wave you ride. One of my biggest insecurities is that I didn’t train, but that’s not necessarily the only way.

“So I’m just a bit of a sponge. I’ve been really lucky as I’ve got to be around some of the best actresses of my age.

"I’ve got to work with Lily Collins, Shailene Woodley, Lily James and I just worked with Emma Roberts and they were all the leading ladies of the films. It’s definitely been invaluable.”

Waterhouse has been named as the new face of Magnum and was out last night promoting its new ice-cream, the Double.

Magnum is calling on people to “Release the Beast and Dare to go Double”. Get inspired at magnumicecream.com