Kate Winslet annoyed her children by practicing her German accent at home

Kate Winslet annoyed her children by practicing her German accent at home

Kate Winslet annoyed her children by practising her German accent at home.
‘The Reader’ star – who plays a former Nazi guard in the film – was told to
drop the fake voice when she was around her two kids and speak in her normal
British accent.
Kate said: “They got mightily fed up with me reading bedtime stories with a
German accent.
“They said, ‘Mum, just be plain. Don’t do any funny stuff like voices. Just
be regular.’
“Then I had to say, ‘But, I’m not regular and I’m never going to be regular.
When you’re a teenager you’re going to know that it’s cool.’ ”
The 33-year-old actress – who has been nominated for an Oscar for her role
in the Holocaust drama – has also revealed how her children mistook her for
their grandmother when she was made up to look like an old lady in some
scenes.
Kate - who an eight-year-old daughter, Mia, from a previous relationship,
and a five-year-old son Joe with her husband Sam Mendes - added to Britain’s
The Sun newspaper: “They saw the pictures and said, ‘Is that Nana?’ I said,
‘No, it’s me.’ ‘Oh, you look yucky.’
“I took it as a compliment that they genuinely thought I looked old.
Needless to say, I didn’t tell my mother.”