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Most of the actors in the series were Irish, something Norton says added a level of pressure when it came to perfecting the accent and admits he was "so scared on the first day".

“I wasn’t in a position to say anything, really,” said Russell, who still speaks with a noticeable Midwestern accent.

“Never come back here again,” he said in his thick Italian accent.

Because she had grown up speaking French, Arabic, and her parents' Sicilian dialect, her accent was seen as unacceptable, and her voice was dubbed by other Italian actors.

Marie was told to "flatten out" her Glaswegian accent, and keep her fiery temperament hidden.