TELEVISION PLAY BACK TO BRITISH FOR MOYER

Moyer is happy to be back in his native British accent for the first time in a decade.

The actor, best known as Vampire Bill from True Blood, helms the second season of the anthology series Safe House.

“I’ve spent seven years having crazy powers doing True Blood and obviously I wasn’t looking to do anything like that again,” he says over the phone from Atlanta, where he’s filming the X- Meninspired series Gifted. “It was lovely to be back in the UK, getting to use a British accent for the first time in 10 years. I’ve done s--- tons of BBC in my career, but viewers might not have known it was me back in the day.”

Moyer stars as charismatic yet impulsive ex- police officer Tom Brook, who runs a police safe house on the wild and beautiful coastline of North Wales. Former Doctor Who Christopher Eccleston starred in season one, set in the Lake District.

“Chris is great, and it was nice to be taking over from him,” Moyer says. “That first season was based on a true story of a real- life couple, so what I liked about our series is we completely changed the world.

“It’s set in a different place with a different story, and I thought the writing was really punchy.”

News of a shocking crime turns Tom and his partner Sam’s ( Zoe Tapper) world upside down. Years previously, Tom investigated a series of abductions perpetrated by an assailant known as The Crow, who took wives as their husbands helplessly watched.