I enjoy the reaction I get in the U.S.A. when people discover I have an English accent. They don't expect that, and it's kind of a kick.
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I love talking in an American accent. Even though it hurts my face after a few hours.
When I speak to people from Britain, that's when I feel like a fake, speaking with an American accent.
Whenever I'm in the U.K., people say I have an American accent. Which is, obviously, funny.
I think most British people who say they can do an American accent are so bad at it. I find it excruciating. I find it excruciating the other way around, too.
Americans like the British kind of quirkiness and the strange accent. They find it kind of cute or something, with a certain charm.
Americans always ask how much I love my accent, and I don't get that - I think I sound like a school teacher.
To be honest, accents are one of those things for me, personally, that usually come quite naturally by just listening to the people.
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.
I keep forgetting I'm speaking in an American accent sometimes. The dangerous thing is that you end up forgetting what your real accent is after a while! It's really strange; I've never done a job in an American accent before.
I love accents.
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