Keala Settle Defends Her British Accent After Moving to London

Keala Settle is defending her accent.

The 48-year-old The Greatest Showman actress was asked about her British accent after moving to London during an interview with YouTuber Mickey-Jo.

“The nation collectively went into shock when you came out with this British accent that people didn’t know about!” he said of her performance during National Lottery’s Big Night of Musicals in Manchester, England.

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Keala was born and raised in Hawaii to a mother from New Zealand and a father from Oldham, England.

She said her voice “is exactly what it is,” adding: “It’s my life. It’s who I am. I’m not gonna try and sit here and go, ‘I get to be this, I get to be that.’ I’m going to be who I am. What anyone else thinks of me is their problem, and it will always be their problem. All I can do is look after myself at every single level.”

She went on to say that she “will never be the same as the person in 2019. I won’t be the same person as yesterday. And I hope to Christ you’re not the same person.”

“I hope that we all give ourselves the grace and the opportunity to evolve into whatever we’re becoming every day. Because that never stops until we’re six feet under or burnt to ashes and scattered across the North Sea. That never changes — well, I hope it doesn’t,” she continued.

“It all depends on us individually to just sort of look after ourselves. And then when we know we can do that, we can look after each other properly.”

Keala went on: “I’m a person of the globe. My home is in me — it will always be in me. It’s been tattered and torn and I’ve had to rebuild it numerous times, but it’s always been there. So wherever I go is where I belong, because I belong [inside myself].”

She will star Miss Coddle in Wicked this November! She’s also heading back to Broadway soon.