{"id":14691,"date":"2015-06-30T12:54:33","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T03:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dante-learning.com\/eng\/?p=14691"},"modified":"2024-07-18T06:08:04","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T21:08:04","slug":"hollywood-stars-speak-awesome-italian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dante-learning.com\/eng\/hollywood-stars-speak-awesome-italian\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood stars who speak awesome Italian &#8211; Video"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A list of Hollywood stars who speak awesome Italian or are such great actors that managed to speak it very well on stage.<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Some Hollywood actors speak (or spoke) Italian very well, others tried to speak a credible Italian but simply couldn&#8217;t. Some&nbsp;others, learned Italian only for acting properly, with astonishing results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Vincent Cassel<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mostra del Cinema, Cassel imbarazzato sulla Bellucci: \u201cMonica mi piace tanto... come attrice\u201d\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J9pvQ4V3kbY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>We are sure that 14 years of marriage with actress <a title=\"Monica Bellucci\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Monica_Bellucci\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Monica Bellucci<\/a> helped Vincent Cassel with his Italian. He speaks quite flawlessly, &nbsp;with a slight French accent, but he&#8217;s definitely very fluent. Being French is of course&nbsp;a great advantage for learning Italian or other Romance languages.&nbsp;Cassel loves Brazil and he&#8217;s also proficient&nbsp;in Portuguese.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Christoph Waltz<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Inglourious Basterds: The Italian Scene\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rq7qm3T3cPE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Unforgettable performance in <a title=\"Inglorious Basterds IMDB\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0361748\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Inglorious Basterds<\/a>. An Austrian-born actor, Waltz is of course a native&nbsp;German speaker, and he&#8217;s fluent in English and French. Listening to this&nbsp;performance alone, it would be easy to assume he&#8217;s fluent in Italian too, but actually he admitted he&#8217;s not. He learned a few lines for the movie and that&#8217;s it. I&#8217;m sure though he would learn very quickly. Great accent, fluency and intonation, he fooled me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Colin Firth<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Videomessaggio (in italiano) di Colin Firth, vincitore del Nastro Europeo - Nastri d&#039;Argento 2021\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I3CrUlQywxI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This versatile&nbsp;English actor, good on stage and on the big screen, married Livia Giuggioli&nbsp;in 1997 , an Italian producer and director. They live in London and Italy&nbsp;and&nbsp;have two sons with Italian names, Luca and Matteo. He&nbsp;started to learn Italian when he and Giuggioli began to date and he now is fluent. He has a house in Siena and spends as much time as he can in Italy. In this recent message, he shows advanced Italian skills mixed with&nbsp;a great British accent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Audrey Hepburn<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Italian Interview with Audrey Hepburn (Parte 1)\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5p78PFW2aNg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The tribute here is a must. Hepburn was a polyglot, fluent in&nbsp;Dutch, French, Spanish and Italian. in 1968 she married an Italian doctor, Andrea Dotti. The legendary <em>Vacanze Romane, <\/em>the unforgettable movie with Gregory Peck, made Italy even more famous and desirable than it was&nbsp;already, a romantic destination for millions people. In this interview, she displays a near-native&nbsp;knowledge of Italian an&nbsp;elegant syntax and a very good pronunciation. A real charm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-41f05ac6 gb-headline-text\">Jodie Foster<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jodie Foster speaks Italian!\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QY8yUo9HtKc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jodie Foster is fluent in French, Spanish and Italian. In this quick interaction with an Italian journalist, Jodie speaks naturally and complains about her French accent, which is hardly noticeable. I wasn&#8217;t expecting that, it was a nice find. She speaks naturally. Beautiful smile&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-f2ec9bb4 gb-headline-text\">Viggo Mortensen<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Green Book Oscar 2019   Viggo Mortensen parla in Italiano\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BTGISI_Z0-c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s well known that Viggo Mortensen speaks 7 languages and Italian too. He uses sophisticated vocabulary and describes his beautiful movie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt6966692\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Green Book<\/a> with all the nuances of a native Italian speaker. Intelligent, charming, polyglot. One of my favourite actors. Bravo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-88f6b416 gb-headline-text\">Penelope Cruz<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Intervista a Penelope Cruz\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zcoCKxWcovE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Surprisingly, there are not many Spanish actors fluent in Italian, even though our Spaniard cousins speak a nearly identical language. Penelope Cruz is an exception. Her Spanish accent is beautiful and she tries to find appropriate words when she talks about her childhood. Brava e Bella.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Robert De Niro<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"memorable performance by Robert de Niro Italian scene from the godfather part 2\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x4S9MkapJIw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">When I heard Robert De Niro speaking fluent Sicilian as a young Don Vito Corleone in <em>The Godfather Part II<\/em>, I was shocked. I am a native speaker and I found his Sicilian very convincing. Of course he has an American accent, but he was clearly understanding what he was saying, as opposed to Al Pacino in the same movie, who instead didn&#8217;t seem comfortable in speaking broken Italian. De Niro is a living legend in Italy, he&#8217;s not only considered a great actor, but also a great Italian. But is he really Italian? Well, he holds a double passport, but I wanted to know if he learned Sicilian at home as a kid. Then I learned that he&#8217;s of Irish and Italian origin and learned some Italian only as an adult. Amazing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">Thanks for reading. Please comment and share.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alla prossima!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Colin_Firth_and_Livia_Giuggioli_(2).jpg?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PHOTO CREDITS<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A list of Hollywood stars who speak awesome Italian or are such great actors that managed to speak it very well on stage. Some Hollywood actors speak (or spoke) Italian very well, others tried to speak a credible Italian but simply couldn&#8217;t. Some&nbsp;others, learned Italian only for acting properly, with astonishing results. 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