Rafe Spall jokes his three children have been 'absolute b******s' in lockdown as he admits they 'make it really difficult' to homeschool them
He shares daughter Lena, nine, and son Rex, seven, and a four-year-old son with wife of ten years Elize du Toit.
But Rafe Spall appears to have not been enjoying home-schooling his three little ones while in lockdown, as he claimed they could be 'absolute b******s' in an interview with The Mirror on Thursday.
The actor, 37, spoke candidly about life in quarantine with his children and said of teaching them: They can be absolute b******s and make it really difficult for you - it's difficult, really difficult. You’ve just got to keep patient - and bite your tongue.
Candid: Rafe Spall joked his three children have been 'absolute b******s' in lockdown as he admitted on Thursday that they 'make it really difficult' to homeschool them
Rafe went on to say his children have helped keep him grounded amid his successful acting career, as he went on: 'You’ve got to take your kids to school. I have been wiping bums for nine years.
'If you don't have things that keep you grounded it is easy to lose yourself. My youngest is four so we are through it.'
The Shaun Of The Dead star, who is the son of actor Timothy Spall, went on to claim he missed the normality of everyday life prior to the coronavirus lockdown, including sitting in traffic or going to a restaurant.
Family man: Rafe shares daughter Lena, nine, and son Rex, seven, and a four-year-old son with wife of ten years Elize du Toit (pictured in 2019)
Rafe can currently be seen in BBC drama The Salisbury Poisonings alongside Anne-Marie Duff, who portrays 'superhero' Tracy Daszkiewicz, the director of public health at Wiltshire council at the time of the attack on former Russian military intelligence officer and double agent Sergei Skripal.
Skripal and his daughter Yulia, who was visiting him at the time of the attack, both survived but a local woman named Dawn Sturgess died.
Her boyfriend Charlie Rowley became critically ill, as did Detective Sergeant Nick Bailey (Spall), who had searched Skirpal's house.
Honest: Rafe, who is son of actor Timothy Spall (pictured in 2014) said of homeschooling his kids: 'It's difficult, really difficult. You’ve just got to keep patient - and bite your tongue'
Speaking to The Times about the show, Duff acknowledged the iconocraphy such as the hazmat suits and restaurants closed to prevent any spread will strike a chord with viewers in a way that could not have been foreseen when the show was made.
'We've become phenomenally aware of all the people that are cannon fodder in our lives, the people that are really there are at the front, taking bullets for us,' she said.
'I think this is a story about those people: the people who pick up after us, the people who take our rubbish away and who stack shelves and get paid sometimes less than the minimum wage, unfortunately. They are our superheroes, and this drama is about a few of those superheroes.'
The show follows Daszkiewicz (Duff) as she works with colleagues to try to combat a lethal and invisible enemy that has appeared out of nowhere.
New show: Rafe can currently be seen in BBC drama The Salisbury Poisonings alongside Anne-Marie Duff (pictured), who portrays 'superhero' Tracy Daszkiewicz
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