JK: Were you surprised to get the role, being a Brit with your accent? [Glen Martin]DW: I grew up in the suburbs of Yorkshire.
JK: What did David Simon tell you? He loved the audition tape.
DW: It was such a long shot, I sent a tape. They said put yourself on tape, so I did my best Robert De Niro impression, with my girlfriend who was supposed to be reading the other lines, but she couldn't stop laughing. I had to send her out, so I just did the lines and left a pause for the other character. They got that tape and they thought it was really funny. They had a good a laugh at that. I thought it was so ludicrous for me to go for this part, and that was really how I felt through the whole audition process, which helped a lot.
JK: And then you met Idris.
DW: Well, Idris is much more of a method actor about it. He went around using an American accent all the time. He's a real actor where I wasn't.
JK: So how do you do the accent?
DW: I wish I knew. I just do take after take until they tell me the accent's all right.
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