“The result looks pretty much like reality, but of course without the murders and the wigs," Andrei Bezrukov, who lived undercover in the U.S. as the Canadian "Donald Heathfield," told a Russian newspaper. "My wife Elena and I didn’t expect that the American creators of the series would want and be able to show the characters of the agents so deeply and impartially, even with sympathy."
(You can hear Bezrukov's muted, difficult-to-place, but definitely not Canadian accent in this video — he's on the right.)