In the U.K., we're surrounded by American accents. Anything we watch in television. We have 'How I Met Your Mother' and all these other shows here, so it's not something that's really alien to us.
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In England, we're around so much American culture and TV anyway, so it's an accent that's always in our ear.
My natural accent is American. I chose to speak with a U.K. accent when I was about to enter the final year at drama school in London. I was going to try to find a way to stay in the U.K. after I finished college and could not imagine trying to live and get work there with an American accent.
Americans like the British kind of quirkiness and the strange accent. They find it kind of cute or something, with a certain charm.
Whenever I'm in the U.K., people say I have an American accent. Which is, obviously, funny.
I think American audiences are open to people with accents and different nationalities being on the screen.
When I travel round the country, people can't place my accent; if there's someone in the audience, they'll be like, 'You're from Philadelphia', but everyone else will say, 'Where are you from, California?' I get England sometimes - bizarre!
When I speak to people from Britain, that's when I feel like a fake, speaking with an American accent.
To be honest, accents are one of those things for me, personally, that usually come quite naturally by just listening to the people.
It's actually reassuring to see people struggling to do our accent instead of us constantly trying to emulate British or American accents, which we are always asked to do.
We hear foreign accents on CNN. It's crazy, it's wild, who knows, maybe they'll take you because you certainly don't fit in, in the American spectrum of news.
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