Claire Danes boozes up Brit-style with Hugh Dancy's family

Claire Danes has a hit on her hands with Showtime's "Homeland" series, in which she plays a CIA agent on a mission to save the country from a terrorist attack.

It's when she's away from the homeland, though, that the actress -- who married British heartthrob Hugh Dancy in 2009 -- says she has the most fun. She tells OK! that since marrying Dancy, she's embraced British pub culture with a particular enthusiasm.

In fact, she says she now struggles to politely sip wine at parties when she's back in the States. "I've been in training for a number of years now. They're not kidding [in Britain]," she says. "My in-laws can drink me under the table. I've now come to really enjoy pub culture but there was a transitional period where I was sort of like, 'What is this?'"

The difference, she says, is in the lack of distraction in England. "They sit in one seat and drink for about seven hours straight," she says. "[Americans] drink, but we drink and do other things, like, we drink and eat or we drink and dance or we drink and, like, take a walk and go drink somewhere else. They talk and that's probably why they've produced such witty, clever people."

Cheers!