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  • Tom, you've done some accent work, haven't you?

  • Well, yes, some. Cloud Atlas, you did...?

  • Yeah, William Conacher, our dialect coach,

  • kept saying, "No, that's not it."

  • So, I was trying to play somebody cockney,

  • and it seemed like every one of our sessions would go like this -

  • "All right, start with the dialogue."

  • "Oh, it's a bloody waste of time, this is.

  • "Do you know what I want to do?

  • "I want to smash him right in the face and...

  • # All I want is a room somewhere... #

  • So, I'm channelling Audrey Hepburn.

  • In all my dialogue.

  • But you also, didn't you teach Mr Hanks Scouse?

  • Well, he tried a little bit.

  • Cos when I'm on the phone to... He is on the phone all the time!

  • Only in the chair, though! In make-up!

  • Chair in make-up, "Ow are yer? Hello, love, I love yer loads!"

  • "I love yer loads!" Love yer loads!

  • His family had a long-standing holiday that he wanted to be

  • released from work for,

  • and his kids sent the most adorable video to our director.

  • They were like, "Oh, we hope that you will release our daddy."

  • "We know that you have him for possible rain cover shots,

  • "but if there's any way you can let him come

  • "so we can have our traditional holiday." Yep.

  • And then the family pet came through,

  • and your daughter said, "Oops, I just tread on the cat."

  • APPLAUSE

  • But then I went on the holiday! Oh, you went on the holiday!

  • I made certain!

Tom, you've done some accent work, haven't you?

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