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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.

When I first tried the American accent, for a moment I thought I could never be an actor because I just could not do it. But then I thought, 'Okay, it'll just be something that I work at until I get it.'

I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have a good crack at doing that.

I do always feel very proud and flattered by being asked to be a part of American productions playing American characters.

I remember when I got my first opportunity to work in America, I didn't speak a lot of English, so I only really knew my lines for the movie I was doing.

I think American audiences are open to people with accents and different nationalities being on the screen.

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.

When I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till makeup comes off. I just want everyone to be at ease, and not have the show's creators think, 'Oh my god, he's so English, why did we hire him?'

With most British actors, it's amazing. I think they start with the character on the outside and work in.

Acting for me was hard enough without having to think of the accent. And also, when I was auditioning for stuff I would walk into the room with an Australian accent, and I would do the audition in an American accent, and they would invariably say, 'Yeah, it's that good, but I can still hear the oddity coming through.'