The Scottish brogue she has in "Doctor Who" is the closest thing to her real, natural voice.

She was born in Inverness, Scotland, the largest city in the northern Highlands region. "Doctor Who" made a big deal of her character's Scottishness, occasionally contrasting it with the Englishness of the Doctor himself (when he was played by "The Crown" star Matt Smith, at least).

Playing Amelia Pond, the Doctor's companion in the fifth to seventh seasons of the modern "Doctor Who" reboot, was one of Gillan's first big roles. And she says that, since then, she's become more comfortable acting with accents other than her own.

"It's very rare that I'm acting in my natural accent," she said in an interview with Wired magazine, "and honestly, it's gotten to the point now where I'm more comfortable acting in a different accent."

She also joked that her accent's changing as a result of her work, and she now sounds "like a Scottish person that’s maybe been on holiday in America."

But it's not nearly American enough for Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart, her co-stars in "Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle" (2017) and "Jumanji: The Next Level" (2019). She said, in an interview on "Jimmy Kimmel Live," that the two superstars frequently walked around the set doing bad versions of Scottish accents to "torment" her.

For the record, she doesn't think much of their impressions. "It's a travesty to listen to. They sound like someone doing a bad impression of Dick Van Dyke in 'Mary Poppins.'" (Incidentally, Van Dyke was actually supposed to be doing a London accent in that 1964 classic, so apparently, Johnson and Hart were very bad indeed.)

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