“I’m a bit embarrassed about it, in a very British way,” Hugh Bonneville said of his Best Actor in a Drama series Emmy nomination while speaking to the BBC’s Alastair Leithhead at the BAFTA Los Angeles TV Tea party yesterday (September 21). The Downton Abbey patriarch was modest about his chances at taking home a trophy against last year’s winner (and fellow Brit) Damian Lewis and the man he sees as a favorite, Breaking Bad‘s Bryan Cranston. Watch our interview, in which Bonneville also compares American and British reactions to his popular costume soap opera.