We try to magnify the difference between Americans and the English. In real life they like the same music and dress the same. It's really much more similar than anyone thinks or how we show it.
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I think Brits probably feel that Americans are more like us than vice-versa, if that makes sense. Because we get everything American over here in Britain, but yet there are things which are staunchly English that you guys don't have.
Americans like the British kind of quirkiness and the strange accent. They find it kind of cute or something, with a certain charm.
It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones.
I think American audiences are open to people with accents and different nationalities being on the screen.
It's been interesting to see how similar audiences in the East and West are, actually, and how it makes you realize that when politicians emphasize the differences between our cultures, it's usually because it benefits them more so than us.
We sing in English, not mimicking some American rock singer's accent. That's just pretending to be something you ain't.
Americans' distrust of the conspicuously intellectual - a habit we learned, I suppose, on the frontier, but which remains a feature of the national character - has the virtue of puncturing the pretentious and exposing the fake, but it may also have impaired American listeners' patience for music that is especially complex or austere.
In England, we're around so much American culture and TV anyway, so it's an accent that's always in our ear.
The air of the English is down-to-earth. They care about details; there's a tradition, but there's also a counter-culture: the younger generation versus the older generation and so on. But then that's well blended into a happy balance and crystallised into common sense.
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