John Lithgow

Well, we hired this great toothmeister, a man named Christopher Lyons, who does all the great false teeth for Tilda Swinton and Meryl Streep as Maggie Thatcher.

Well, he made these little silicon plumpers, we called them, that clicked onto my back teeth.

It changed everything.

I mean, it made me sound like Chester because he did have this—he sounded like he had marbles in the back of his mouth.

But it also just made me feel so different from myself.

I mean, I've worked with the RSC, the Royal Shakespeare Company, and at the National, and I've done about 10 roles of Englishman in England.

And I'm better at it.

I must say, listening to myself as Churchill, I still had a lot to learn.

Oh, I think so.

I'm doing Dumbledore and Harry Potter with a marvelous dialect coach watching me like a hawk.

And she doesn't give me many notes anymore, but she certainly did the first few months.

I have finished.

They still have another month to go.

But they squeezed all my stuff in to allow me to do Giant on Broadway.

So my last month of work was brutal.

It aged me.

But then with Dumbledore, that comes in handy.

It's harder than it used to be to learn the lines, but once they're in there, I'm fine.

Yeah, my brain is a little bit tired.

My body is tired.