It still baffles my brain that I actually get to portray a character on American television that's this gay, femme-y Filipino guy.
When you have the first show set in India on American television, there's gonna be a Nervous Nellie kind of vibe.
There's definitely a wave of Brits doing great work on American television, and I wouldn't mind being one of them!
The difficulty with American television is it's pot luck.
I don't get to watch a lot of TV, mainly because I'm busy working. And I pretty much try not to watch very much television at all, even American television, until I'm done with a season, because things start to creep into my head otherwise.
The American television industry is a Darwinian environment where success is usually measured in inches, not yards. That is, for most TV media, audiences have gotten so small that one measures 'victories' in tenths of a point - as in, a 2.2 percent share is a great leap over a 2.1 percent share.
I grew up in Sweden. It's a profoundly Americanized country. We have a strong tradition of Americana and always had non-dubbed American television, and embracing American culture a lot, so I always knew that I wanted to go to America.
I grew up watching a lot of American television and so the American sound has been in my psyche somehow for a long time and is quite familiar and so that does make it easier.
