Taron Egerton was 'terrified' of using his own accent in upcoming movie

Taron Egerton thought he had to "give up acting" because he felt so "terrified" of using his own accent while filming his upcoming comedy-thriller.

The British actor prefers to adopt accents rather than use his own voice because it helps him get into character.

However, after going seven years without playing a British person, Egerton felt it was time to work with his natural voice in his upcoming movie, Everybody Wants to F**k Me, a comedy-thriller set in the world of modern dating in London.

During a recent appearance on the Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard podcast, the 36-year-old admitted that he felt exposed without an accent to hide behind.

"I made a movie in the autumn where I made the conscious decision to not adopt any kind of difference in the way I speak and to play as close to me as possible. I hadn't played a Brit for seven years, so I didn't feel like I'd played anything near to me," he explained.

"The first week I thought I was going to have to give up acting. I was terrified. I had nowhere to hide; I felt overexposed. I didn't feel there was something I could lean into and it nearly f**ked me up. I would be nervous to go back there... It was a weird thing to experience; I didn't see it coming at all."

After making that movie, which will premiere at the Toronto Film Festival next month, Egerton shot the crime thriller Kockroach, which is set in 1950s New York.

For the first time, he decided to stay in the American accent from the moment he arrived on set, and he confessed that it was hard to drop it at the end of each day.

"I found that in the car on the way home, I kind of struggled to shake it off. Not because I felt like I was this guy in 1957 but because you get into a muscularity," the Kingsman: The Secret Service star said.

In addition to American accents, Egerton recently tried his hand at Australian for the action thriller Apex, which was released in April.

He shared that it was "a nightmare" and he was offered a way out, but he was determined to give it a go.

"People warned me before. The studio, in fact, were very like, 'We'd actually be happy if you did it British; we would like you to be British' and I was like, 'Well, that's not really what I want to do,'" he recalled.