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How did you develop your highly convincing British accent?

When I arrived [in London] I was a fully-fledged kind of American teenager, but as the years went by I integrated more and more.

All my friends were English and I was studying dialects and things. I just gradually started to sound more local, so that by the time I came back to America, I had to relearn an American accent.

I felt like a native, but people would say "Where are you from?". I feel very fortunate to have had both [accents].

Is it a problem to snap back into the British accent?

I feel like I have both inside me, so I feel comfortable about them. I’m sure I make some mistakes occasionally, but people are kind enough to overlook them.

Wesley speaks the way he speaks and I still go to London regularly so I can hear it in my ear, and if I’m really in a panic I can put on the old World Service of the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ and get it back.