I still am a geek, I don't think there's anything wrong with it. I see no shame in having an unhealthy obsession with something.

An accent has to do with the way your mouth works and the sounds that come out of your head, but somehow it informs everything about you.

I always like seeing people transforming themselves, in whatever way that might be, and a different accent is part of that.

And the very fact of how you speak somehow influences who you are. The way you move, the way you think, it seeps into your being, and it's quite hard to really break that down entirely.

If you speak in a different accent, you begin to move in a slightly different way. You think in a slightly different way. It's part of trying to find what makes a character.

All roads seem to have come back to Doctor Who in our life. But, no, it was a huge part of my growing up. I was a massive fan and it certainly inspired me to get into acting and to be ... one of those people that tells stories on TV. That was a huge part of my childhood.

Twitter! It's like being stalked by committee!