Richard Armitage got some of his French in Canada!
ETA: it’s frustrating that so little of what he’s talking about is visible in the film, but I really enjoy Richard Armitage’s discussion of process.
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Go Canada! I’d love to hear his Quebecois accent
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Right? I have a favorite Quebecois band and I would love to hear him singing with them … fantasies alight!
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oh yeah
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I know it’s like, a total cliché, but he could wear a red toque.
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Ok, I just pictured Richard Armitage dancing to You Can Keep Your Hat On in a French accent with a touque – it was quite something
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What, you don’t see him in a canoe singing “le bon vent”?
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I grew up with a canoe – and it was red! I can picture it now……
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Me too !
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🙂
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What’s your favorite Québécois band, Serv ?
Richard speaking French (whatever the accent) is cute and he’s good I must say.
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well — I love this band anyway. I guess I’m not distinguishing it among incredibly deep knowledge of music in Quebec but one of their CDs has been on infinite repeat in my car for awhile. https://leventdunord.com/en/
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Ah nice. Le Vent du Nord is defitively into “folklore music”, it’s a good band. 😊
I like the Forillon song, the song is about the Forillon national Park which is in Gaspésie. This park is amazing, very beautiful (when it’s not raining that is 😉).
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as so much of North America … 🙂
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Would he have been working on his French when he was in Vancouver working on BOF? There are not a whole lot of native French speakers here. 2011 census was 17k out of 4.4 million people, so he was lucky to find some!
I was struck by the quote that as an actor he can relate to “how ambition can be all-consuming at the expense of your life.” I assume that means that there are things he would have liked in his personal life that he has sacrificed for ambition.
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No, while in Toronto for Hannibal. Hannibal wrapped after Pilgrimage had already started filming. Brain on Fire was later that summer (2015).
Yes — interesting statement. I think one thing he’s mentioned in the past has been the way that the peripatetic lifestyle has complicated his social life.
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Ahh, that makes more sense -lots of Francophones in Ontario.
For an actor chasing the work, sustaining a relationship would be pretty tough.
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Plus: 18 months in NZ. It seems like that played a role in the Abbingdon / Freeman breakup. The people who were happiest there seemed to have brought their partners with them (McTavish, Nesbit).
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Yes, but not necessarily in Toronto. So I am still wondering how / where he got his tutoring – Canadian accent. Did he hang out in Montreal with his good friend Yael Farber maybe?
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Could be… but still 32,000 Francophones in City of Toronto per 2011 census. And Toronto has an Alliance Francaise language school as well.
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I can’t exclude it, obviously, but Montreal to Toronto is a five hour drive. That would be a long way to go for any kind of regular tutoring, while shooting actively.
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Wherever in Canada he has learned it, it’s nice. I’m proud of him 😉😍
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