Wonka actor shares why his character is only one to not have English accentJimmy Kimmel Live!, ABC
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00:00 Your choice of accent for a cop who was in London--
00:03 I know.
00:04 --was a New York cop.
00:05 I know.
00:06 I told the director, I said, I can do a British accent.
00:09 If you'd like me to do a British accent, I can do it.
00:11 Of course you can.
00:12 I'm like, you know, if you want me to be British, I can do it.
00:14 I can be British.
00:15 And he was like, no, no, let's go with something more,
00:18 you know, cop-ish.
00:20 He wanted-- he wanted-- he didn't want him
00:22 to be a police officer.
00:23 He wanted him to be a cop.
00:24 And so we decided to go with this kind of Brooklyn-y thing,
00:27 you know, over there, Santa Monica, more like that,
00:29 even though I don't sound like anybody else in a movie.
00:31 I mean, what are you going to do?
00:33 It's very good, though.
00:34 I mean, it really is.
00:35 I'm usually very critical of a Brooklyn accent,
00:37 but you got it right.
00:38 You nailed it nicely. - Oh, what?
00:39 Thank you, buddy. - Yeah.
00:40 You really did.