Downton Abbey's Allen Leach, Michelle Dockery and Hugh Bonneville appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last night and Colbert asked them to read a scene from the show using American accents.
“I think part of [Downton's] appeal for Americans is we hear [the British] accent and we think of it as very classy,” said Colbert.
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