The Walking Dead - Andrew Lincoln Interview

With the second season of The Walking Dead set to resume on FX this Friday, February 17, star Andrew Lincoln has spoken about his amazing double life on the acclaimed horror series.

It's filmed in Peachtree City, Georgia, a place in America's Deep South where alligators can be kept as pets and golf carts are the most common form of transport.

There's an unsettling calm in the air, which makes the area an eerily apt setting for the modern-day zombie drama.

British actor Andrew Lincoln heads up the cast as Rick Grimes, a police sheriff attempting to lead a diverse band of survivors to safety, and he's made himself right at home in the Southern state.

The 38-year-old has decamped his wife and two young children to nearby Atlanta, grown used to the bugs, soaring temperatures and hearty comfort food and, from the moment he sets foot off the plane to when he flies back to Britain for his breaks, talks in an American accent.

It's a formula which works for him. Based on the comic books by Robert Kirkman, its now the most-watched series on American cable, has been sold all over the world and Lincoln has been praised for his authentic and heartfelt portrayal of the small town cop facing big challenges.

But it means that when a group of British journalists descend on set, where he is filming a scene in a ramshackle bar, he's so in character he's unable to revert to interview mode.

"I'm so sorry," he drawls, no trace of his British upbringing, which spanned from London to Bath, via Hull, registering in his voice. "I can't break my accent."

Source: Full article @ Coventry Telegraph