When I'm in the U.K. I find myself using a lot of Britishisms.
I love boys with English accents.
My family are from Liverpool, so I have some twang there - I have a Midlands accent, and I was raised about an hour north of London, so my voice is a mess. Although, to American ears, it sounds like the crisp language of a queen's butler.
In maybe 1963, we had 'Collier's Encyclopedia,' and they sent us their yearly LP. I heard the Beatles talking on there. That was the first time I tried altering my voice, doing a Liverpudlian accent.
I grew up with a posh English accent, and all my aunts sounded as if they came out of a Merchant Ivory movie.
Americans like the British kind of quirkiness and the strange accent. They find it kind of cute or something, with a certain charm.
I'd be quite excited to play somebody British.
I like to think my accent isn't strong enough, but it's funny: I get people coming up to me in America and saying I sound like Mel B. She's from Leeds. They just hear a British accent and probably can't quite work it out.
