How Does Will Ferrell Translate Into Spanish?
15-Apr-2011
We at Technical Translations like to keep a weather eye on heroic linguistic efforts everywhere and the latest of these is the news that Will Ferrell will be starring in the Spanish film “Casa De Mi Padre” The House Of My Father. But how will the English-speaking comedian translate for the Spanish viewers?
He seems to be enjoying what is undoubtedly quite a linguistic challenge. In his own words; “Oh my God. How did I get myself into this? Here I am, it's a 23-day shoot, entirely in Spanish, and every day, the director Matt Piedmont would say, 'It's a 23-day fever dream.”
"I would get through a day, and between getting the memorization correct in Spanish and the pronunciation, and any sort of articulation and acting with it, it was just like, 'Ahh, I did it.' Only to be hit on the car ride home with, like, 'Oh no. I got three more pages tomorrow. That was just Monday.”
Reviews on the film on the Internet say that Ferrell’s part as Armando Alvarez, a Mexican rancher, which is entirely performed in Spanish, comes across as very natural. Technical Translations can’t wait to judge for ourselves.
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