- shocked - (listens) real Americans!
I wonder if I could fool them
I just wanna say you're the most good-looking person I've seen today
I've blown my cover
haven't I?
I think I think so
hello I'm Lia Hatzakis and I think
London can be a really lonely place so I'm gonna be pretending to be an
American today called Nancy and I'm just gonna see if I can make friends
with people because I think that Americans are just really chatty British
people basically
and Brits are never really the type to just start a
conversation so let's go pretend to be Nancy and see if I can make some friends
I'm Nancy do you want to be in my You Tube video?
hi cab drier
you've never seen the Queen eat?
no i've never seen the Queen eat
no
oh my gosh is she, have you ever met her?
nope not something I can say I've done
who around here is connected to her?
maybe Prince Philip
nobody round here
can I find him like is his house down here?
or anything I just started a YouTube channel and I'm hoping to get
closer to Royalty
yeah well I mean your best bet is to go to Buckingham Palace
what's that is that a fish?
the big big palace oh yeah big palace knock on the gate and say can I speak to
Queenie
Queenie aw that is so cute
I love your accent where are you from is it London?
No no, Wiltshire
I'm gonna pretend I know where that is
Bristol
(Camera man): I'm from Bristol
(Londoner) - you from Bristol?
he's my first friend
he goes to university
but so did you guys you guys meet a
hostel or where do you guys meet
just on the street
okay and what brings you here?
umm just trying to make
friends
I don't think um
I don't think Londoners really talk to each other
no not at all
no not like you do in America yeah
why is that?
just very bit grumpy is just different culture I guess
busy busy
like I've just
come from New Zealand I'll be living there for the last year and people tend
to be much friendlier there whereas here they're much more serious much
I need to get out of here nobody is gonna talk to me! except these two
so you
travelling here then like?
yeah I mean I'm gonna start I'm gonna trying to
I'm gonna get a
boyfriend and get a visa uh-huh
you want you want to stay?
yeah I mean I just want
to meet the Queen really so wish me luck finding a British boyfriend soon
you'll find both
fair play to ya
and thanks for being my friends
good luck to you yeah
bye
oh my god that was so difficult
like I think I fell into Australian a couple of times
(camera guy) they literally walked away
I think I found it was coming to a close and then what's
was that alright Finn?
(camera man) - they did not know that you we're putting that on
are you sure?
they did not know you put that on
I think they guessed as it went on that I was fake this is so hard to keep up
it's when they ask me questions I wasn't prepared for like are you staying here?
are you traveling here? Nancy needs
Nancy needs a backstory or
Or I could try and (gets distracted)
hi ya'll (texas accent)
(woman replies with an American accent)
where are you from?
Maryland
where is that?
the United States you precious thing
(gentlan) right next to Washington DC
I'm a precious thing!
nevermind
nice to meet you I'm Nancy
bye
thats really hard
they said where they are from in America and I have obviously never heard of it
i was like where?
she was like the United States you precious thing also I
love being called precious because I am
hi girls
Do you want to be in my YouTube video? you don't have to but it would be amazing if you could
(girl) what's your youtube channel?
it's just me I'm Nancy I'm trying to make friends here and I don't
know why people don't talk to each other
the girls laugh-
so if you could tell me why they dont
(girls make excuses and leave)
they said sorry they're so sweet they all say sorry okay bye they all say
sorry to everything Brits are so adorable
oh my god that's a Union Jack on the top
of a black cab that is amazing
this guy is hot
I just wanted to say you're the
most good-looking person I've seen today
(man) thank you very much that's cute
you are it's true
(camera man) he must get that a lot because he just went
he was like thank you I know
thank you so much
you just went up to somebody and made their day
I know! I made their day
that's what we Americans
like to do we like to make people's day
you literally just grabbed him out of nowhere and told him
'You're really beautiful have a nice day'
(laughter)
now see that's the thing when you're Nancy you can say anything like Nancy could be like I love
your shoes where are they from but I can't I can't just go up to someone and be like
hi sorry I I love your shoes but where are they from? like it's just not a
thing that we Brits are able to do
so that's what I'm doing it
hello (wrong accent)
oh I just fell out of it
hi I'm Nancy
do you want to be in my Youtube video?
hey I love your style you're so cool
they don't want to talk to me
(camera man) everyone hates you
let's try a different accent
Coffee cofee New York New York got it got it
wagamama what's that?
*(hears American English)
real Americans!
I wonder if I could fool them?
um excuse me
hi I'm Nancy what's your name?
Nicole
Nicole where you from?
(impressed)
I'm from New York
oh same!
no way that's crazy!
yeahI love coffee
so do I
how do you say coffee coffee coffee coffee you from New York
yeah oh my god what's the best thing about London?
well I got here an hour ago
I live here she doesn't
best thing about London I don't know
everything
food people stuff to see
not too small? the food ..not too small
oh yeah
compared to America people always talk about that
no I think they're like
normal
well Americans are like crazy yeah yeah
I can't do it anymore I can't keep it up
was that alright?
do you think the character could make friends in London?
like that
oh if she was an American? yeah I think people would think you're
like vaguely not American
yeah like she's lived here for a bit yeah yeah
yes I sound a bit like
if you were like I have American parents but i've lived here my whole life
I'd be like okay
that makes sense you know
we will roll with that we are building a backstory thanks
for your help
so Nancy's got American parents and
she's looking for them no she's not looking for them
this just got dark I've come to London
to hide you're like buddy the elf
i love that film
good luck Lia I hope you find your Dad
Santa I know him
I know him
I just walked past some American boys I'm a bit
intimidated by them one of them looks really stoned one of them looks like a
frat boy like a you know like what's it not sorority fraternity yeah frat boys
I'm not going near them
Nancy doesn't mess with frat boys
hi you British?
that sounded australian
Oh sugar
Nancy's traveled far and wide
let's go and have a look at that menu
Do you think I should try the food here?
(passer by) no idea just do it
y'all don't have any tacos around here?
hi
some people don't want to talk
(phone dinging) is that me or you?
me
alright he's popular
hi I'm Nancy
yes
are you from London?
no
where are you from?
- im from Portugal
oh my god where's that? is that in Europe?
yeah, why?
do you want to be my uni project?
if it doesn't take too long yeah
why do you think that Londoners don't
speak to each other?
I don't know obviously
Is everybody here like a bit grumpy?
only one person so far was grumpy
everybody else was helpful
oh my god that is so positive thank you
boring
no he was so sweet he was adorable he's adorable
I just I lost it
and you said boring
yeah that was mean
I just seen this shop
called snog and from my research I know that snog is slang for kissing so that's
disgusting
Am I Miranda sings now?
let's go find out
what is a snog?
it's a kiss my god are you flirting with me?
he's flirting with me I'm going red
bye George
I've blown my cover haven't I I
think I think so they just came right up to us and said how's it going?
I think he knows
it's exhausting being Nancy
hey do you know if the Queen buys her
candy from here?
(shop assistant) no I don't think so, i've never seen here in here
no it just looks like the kind of place the Queen would buy all her stuff so
that's why I came in here it's so cute okay forget I said that
mortifying
the last shot I want to be outside of a tube station and ask someone where the tube station is
do you know where the tube station is from here?
no you don't know either
I've been looking for it for hours
the underground
the tube station
the tube
underground
sorry
okay no worries I'll find it
do you know where the tube station is?
right there oh right there
I've been looking for it Thanks
Hey they got their sweets
do you know where the tube
station is from here?? right there cool
they know they busted me they were like
they were the guys from the sweet shop awkward
hey do you know where the tube station is from here?
(man) just there look
oh stupid me
so stupid
that's the one
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No thank you for watching that my accents are so bad but
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