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Accents can be a great tool to tell a story - but if you do it wrong, it pulls you right out of the movie.

I would quite like to do a different accent or play something so different from myself because Olivia, the character I play in this film, is similar to me.

I did use my own accent in a play once. It's a very freeing, liberating experience. Actors are often asked to adopt a different accent, and sometimes a different voice, so when that's taken away and you don't have to think about it, that's a lovely thing.

Personally, just as an actor, I love accents; they're fun.

I love accents. It's a great way to separate yourself when playing a role.

I love playing characters with different accents. It's a lot of fun.

I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.

I think when you have to train an accent, it just takes you absolutely into another spectrum of the character.

The odd thing is if you asked me to do the accent now I would find it very difficult unless I was also playing that part, because I associate it so much with entering into the role and stepping into someone else's shoes.

The thing with being able to do accents is that it's still completely separate from being an actor.