Actress Kate Hudson has praised the “important” role her stepfather Kurt Russell has played in her life – and revealed she now recognises the actor’s traits in herself.

Hudson, 37, and Russell, 65, appear in a film together for the first time in the disaster film Deepwater Horizon, which tells the story of the 2010 oil-rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico that led to the worst oil spill in US history.

The pair walked the red carpet at the film’s premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, along with their co-star Mark Wahlberg who plays oil rig foreman Mike Williams.

Asked how important Russell had been to her career, Hudson told the Press Association: “I think it’s more, how important has he been in my life?

“He raised me. I am who I am because of him and my mum, of course.

“There are certain parts of me, especially as you get older, you look and you go, that’s just my dad, so he’s incredibly important.”

Hudson said she would love to work on a future film with Russell and her mother, actress Goldie Hawn, but admitted it was an unlikely prospect.

“There’s nobody I’d rather work with,” she said. “We’re very compatible our family. We like each other a lot.

“I’d love to work with them... But I highly doubt it’s going to be all of us in a movie.

“But I have a feeling we’re going to do a lot of things separately together.”

Deepwater Horizon is released in UK cinemas on September 29.