They present us with a fictional, acrimoniously fought election campaign for state governor. In Daughters of the Revolution, we see it from the Democrats’ perspective, and in Mothers Against from the Republicans’. But invoking Kushner highlights the limits of Edgar’s achievement. Kushner’s plays capture contemporary reality at a depth unreachable by Edgar, whose work here is stuck in the 1970s debate play. Characters who are little more than the sum of their political positions address each other like public meetings, relentlessly.Continental Divide is two interlocking, cross-cast plays. It says much for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and the Berkeley Repertory Theatre that they commissioned the pieces from a Limey.

In Tony Taccone’s production, unveiled a year ago in Oregon, the plays now reach the author’s native heath.If only some British theatrical institution would sponsor a drama from Tony Kushner about Downing Street’s US fixation. In 2003, the happy Hollywood family set up a production company, Cosmic Entertainment.. With the Americanisation of British politics proceeding apace, here is an eloquent protest in the shape of two long, densely analytical plays about the grotesque state of US politics written by a British dramatist, David Edgar. “I go: ‘Well, great! Thanks!’ ” Kate is closer to her mother’s long-term partner, Kurt Russell, than to her biological father, Bill Hudson. I won’t have unhealthy relationships in my life.” He, though, claims still to be crazy about his “Angie” and says: “Nothing is more important to me than my daughter’s health and happiness.” KATE HUDSON”I have zero problems when people say, ‘God, you look like your mother,’ ” says Hudson, the daughter of Goldie Hawn. “He’s so into films and young film-makers ­ he just loves it.

And anyway, I think, if you like what you’re doing, then it sort of doesn’t matter what anyone else thinks.”ANGELINA JOLIEThe actress and her actor father, Jon Voight, have a tempestuous relationship. The Tomb Raider star once said that she was divorcing him: “I no longer see us as father and daughter. “It may make me sound cynical, but I find that any little thing I might share is overanalysed. If I said, for example – and I’m only saying this as an example – that I used to go skiing with my father, then the picture drawn is not of a little girl holidaying with her dad, but of ‘oh, the famous Italian actor used to ski’. But if you told me something about your parents,” she smiles, “I would only listen to what you were saying, and that would be what the conversation was about.”"It’s sad really,” she adds quietly. “Because I think that if my parents were more anonymous, then I would share more.

But I don’t want to be overanalysed, so instead I choose to protect myself.” Don’t treat me like a child: Celebrity offspring on their famous mums and dadsSOFIA COPPOLA The director of Lost in Translation, Sofia Coppola, 33, is the daughter of the movie director Francis Ford Coppola “I don’t feel scared of showing my dad scripts,” she says. I ask her how she feels when interviewers look at her and see only her parents The question furrows her beautiful brow. “Any film I am in, if the character says anything about their father, all the journalists ask me if this is how I feel about my father. It’s as if they think I’ve written the script, or I look for characters that are about me.”Mastroianni’s famous lineage has caused her to adopt diversionary tactics to maintain her privacy. “I’ve reached a point where I have a few tried and tested things that I say,” she admits.