&lt;div class=&quot;track&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.22.2/76079?ns=guardian&amp;pageName=Jaime+Winstone%3A+%27The+thought+of+working+with+my+dad+was+quite+scary%27%3AArticle%3A1635568&amp;ch=Film&amp;c3=Obs&amp;c4=Jaime+Winstone%2CRay+Winstone%2CScience+fiction+and+fantasy+%28Film+genre%29%2CHorror+%28Film+genre%29%2CFilm%2CArt+%28visual+arts+only%29%2CCulture%2CRestaurants+%28Life+and+style%29%2CLife+and+style%2CUK+news&amp;c5=Art%2CUnclassified%2CNot+commercially+useful%2CFilm+Reviews%2CFood+and+Drink&amp;c6=Tim+Lewis&amp;c7=11-Sep-27&amp;c8=1635568&amp;c9=Article&amp;c10=Interview%2CFeature&amp;c11=Film&amp;c13=&amp;c25=&amp;c30=content&amp;h2=GU%2FFilm%2FJaime+Winstone&quot; width=&quot;1&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;standfirst&quot;&gt;The actress on playing opposite father Ray and her lead role in dark fantasy drama Elfie Hopkins&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The tan may be Ibiza, but the accent, and particularly the machine-gun laugh, are unmistakably London. Jaime Winstone, the 26-year-old actress, is talking about her hair, which is currently Gwen Stefani blond and swishy, but which she changes dramatically at least four times a year. &quot;I need to get it back to dark for a role,&quot; she says. &quot;But I&#039;ve been told I can&#039;t put any more colour in it.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;What, ever again? &quot;Nah,&quot; she cackles. &quot;This month.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We are in the Wagamama noodle bar on London&#039;s South Bank, where Winstone is promoting Art and Eat, an art-and-dining initiative that will put the work of 10 up-and-coming artists on the walls and placemats of the restaurant chain from next week. The canvas of inner-city artist Holly Thoburn, however, is somewhat overshadowed by the petite figure &quot;vogueing&quot; for the photographer in front of it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Winstone is wearing Chlo&euml; Sevigny heels, a Horace skirt and a vintage silk top with a tiger motif on the reverse that &ndash; though obviously I don&#039;t say it &ndash; calls to mind Rocky Balboa&#039;s leather jacket. Her lips are metallic purple and she wears a pendant made from a protective crystal, a gift from her sister who was worried that Jaime&#039;s social life was becoming too wild.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;This is my art canvas,&quot; she says, gesturing from quiff to toes. &quot;As an actress you have to keep yourself fresh and new. I get bored pretty easily too.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There was little danger of boredom on her most recent project, &lt;em&gt;Elfie Hopkins&lt;/em&gt;, where Winstone plays her first title role; she also helped devise the characters with director Ryan Andrews and guided the film into production over four years. Elfie is an aspiring detective in a deep, dark place that might be Wales who is convinced that a family of cannibals have moved into the village. &quot;It&#039;s heightened fantasy in very real surroundings,&quot; she explains, &quot;like a Tim Walker shoot come to life.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is also the first time that Winstone &ndash; who made her name with spiky performances in &lt;em&gt;Kidulthood&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Made in Dagenham&lt;/em&gt; &ndash; has shared the screen with her dad, Ray. &quot;The thought of it was quite scary,&quot; she says, &quot;but, when it came to it, it was the most natural thing I&#039;d ever done.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Winstone is instinctively drawn to dark materials, and admits that &lt;em&gt;Elfie Hopkins&lt;/em&gt; might not be to everyone&#039;s tastes. &quot;It&#039;s our first project so our next ones are going to be darker, more fantastical, much bigger &ndash; we hope,&quot; she says with a mini-cackle. &quot;We&#039;ve already got one in the pipeline that&#039;s really insane. There&#039;s a gap in the British film market that needs filling and Ryan and I are happy to do that.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wagamama.com/artandeat&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Art and Eat&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt; launches on Thursday 29 September.  Elfie Hopkins is out in October&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;This article was edited on 27/9/11 to correct the name of the featured artist&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;related&quot; style=&quot;float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/jaime-winstone&quot;&gt;Jaime Winstone&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/ray-winstone&quot;&gt;Ray Winstone&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/sciencefictionandfantasy&quot;&gt;Science fiction and fantasy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/horror&quot;&gt;Horror&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/art&quot;&gt;Art&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/restaurants&quot;&gt;Restaurants&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;author&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/timlewis&quot;&gt;Tim Lewis&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;terms&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk&quot;&gt;guardian.co.uk&lt;/a&gt; &amp;copy; 2011 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. 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