Kate Winslet's annoying accent

Jan 28, 2009, 9:15 GMT

01/25/2009 - Kate Winslett -\'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.Albert L. Ortega / PR Photos

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."