Was there ever a concern you wouldn?t pick up the British-ness of the film?
Well, the accent was the most important. But I guess I've spent enough time in England to know that, you know? No, I didn't worry about the English-ness of it. I worked on the accent and I thought about that carefully. That's something that when you're an actor you work on from the time you're in acting school. Everybody's always doing accents.

And you're always having to learn accents and learn sound changes. And, of course, almost everybody else was English. There were two Canadian actors, but really most were English actors so that always helps, too.
Is there any difference between British and American acting?
That's a good question. I don't know. I think perhaps the differences have been lessened. I think in the past, like around the time that method acting became so prevalent, that it used to be American actors were thought to be the kind that would work more from the inside out, and that the English actors worked more from the outside in. Like for instance, an American - a method actor - would think, ?Well, let's see. I have to be sad about something so how did I feel when something really sad happened to me? My grandmother died or something more tragic than that?? Where the example from the outside in would be, let's say I'm going to put this hat on, and then I'm going to put on a moustache, and then I'm going to put false nails on.

Now how does that make me feel? How does that influence my behavior? I don't think that exists so much any more. I think it's more a combination of the two and that most actors are doing a little bit of both. They're looking inside and asking those kinds of questions about your emotional state, and then you're also dealing with whatever good things from the outside that you can do that might be helpful.

Why are actors? masks more pronounced than those of non-actors?
Sometimes it depends on the individual. I think that when I go around in life, if you observe people closely, you don't have to be an actor to have a performance. You don't have to be an actor to have a way of coping. I mean, if there's a way of talking about that without minimizing it. It's a human thing. I guess that's how I see it, you know. It's a way of dealing with one's own insecurity in a given situation. That's also part of it, isn't it?