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"Wales had never been at the top of my travel
hit list but having been there now, I'm telling you it's
profoundly beautiful," she told Reuters from Sydney, Australia.
"However, the accent is very particular and I was incredibly
intimidated."
Collette joked she even considered breaking a limb to get out of
having to play the part, worrying she would be despised in Wales
if she got the accent wrong. Eventually, she overcame her fears.
"I forged on and by the end of the shoot, I wanted to start
again because I felt so fluent with it and it was coming so much
more easily," she said.
With the Welsh accent conquered, Collette was then concerned
about working alongside a horse.
An adaptation of a true story, Collette plays Jan Vokes in
"Dream Horse", a grocery store worker who decides to breed a
racehorse with the help of her cash-strapped neighbors. The film
is released on Friday in the United States.
The group then enter the horse, Dream Alliance, into races,
usually the playgrounds of the wealthy, and it goes on to win
the 2009 Welsh National.
Collette said she bonded strongly with the horse.
"I didn't want to leave him at the end. It was heartbreaking to
say goodbye," she said.
Meeting the real-life Jan Vokes was also daunting, Collette
confessed.
"It's a huge responsibility playing a real person. I don't want
to let her down and also I was just so excited for her. She's
just a normal woman and this is a film now being made about her.
It's such a big deal," Collette said.
(Reporting by Rollo Ross; Editing by Karishma Singh and Ana
Nicolaci da Costa)
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