Zitat des Tages über Cockney:
I grew up with Jilly and Tamsin driving Volvos. But I wasn't one of them... I always felt more comfortable with Cockney and working-class people. My heroes were the Beatles and people like Michael Caine.
The Crafty Cockney had a picture of the owner dressed up as a copper, so I brought it home, wore it on TV and the name just stuck.
It was great to play an ex-marine cockney thug. All my roles are as different as the colours of the rainbow.
I actually had a cockney accent before I went to drama school. It's softened up a bit.
One of the main things about Cockney is, you speak at twice the speed as Americans. Americans speak very slow.
Lots of middle class people are running around pretending to be Cockney.
I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
I love my accent, I thought it was useful in Gone In 60 Seconds because the standard villain is upper class or Cockney. My Northern accent would be an odd clash opposite Nic Cage.
My parents went through the dictionary looking for a beautiful name, nearly called me Banyan, flicked on a few pages and came to China, which is cockney rhyming slang for mate.
