The Accent

Spike had an English accent, and I had what I thought was a fairly good English accent for the audition. But we actually had an Englishman in the cast. Tony Head, who played Giles, came up to me fairly quickly and told me that my English accent was not good enough and that he would be helping me and that I didn’t have a choice in the matter.

He forced me to take tutoring from him for a good two to three months until I could do it to his satisfaction. I will be grateful to him forever for that. I think that breaking point for Tony was when I said the word ‘bollocks’: I said ‘bow-lucks’. And he just couldn’t take it.