Ten celebrities who might surprise you with their ability to speak the language of love…
Just because.
1. Jodie Foster
Academy award-winning foster attended a French-language prep school in Los Angeles and frequently worked in France as a teenager. As a result, she speaks flawless French.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToFM-_yibNg]
Here’s a second video of her on a French television show when she was younger:
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPc-5SbiReo]
2. Bradley Cooper
Cooper did a university exchange program in the southern French town of Aix-en-Provence as a student.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii7LZAxR1I4]
3. Audrey Hepburn
Hepburn spoke several languages fluently including French, Dutch, Italian and Spanish.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1dNbja1ZG8]
4. Mitt Romney
Romney’s flair for French was attacked during his Presidential campaign, some saying he was “too French”! Romney lived in Paris during the 1960s.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c-c0uSZRUU]
Here is the recently-defeated Republican candidate giving it a little Frenchy…
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hjgzXFLcrE&feature=related]
5. Jason Gordon Levitt
A.k.a Batman’s new Robin, Jason studied French poetry during his time at Columbia University and became an avid and self-confirmed Francophile and a French speaker
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsJGZ4bKHZA]
6. Johnny Depp
It’s no surprise that Depp would speak a little French since he’s been living in France with his family for many years, but the opportunity to hear him speak the language is pretty rare… he’s surprisingly vulnerable. Take a look..
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYp9sFLhJqI]
7. Diane Kruger
If you live in France, you’ll be a aware that Kruger speaks flawless French and has played in many French films. She was also married to French actor Guillaume Canet for five years.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giy_4x1_ZFQ]
8. Evageline Lily
The heroine from Lost speaks French quite charmingly in this interview about her character starting at the 0.18 mark:
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6eZejqE6H0]
9. Mika
The “Grace Kelly” singer was born in Beirut, Lebanon and left the war-torn country for Paris where he stayed for six years before moving to London. Here is he is effortlessly speaking French on television:
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFxzRtZdV9c]
10. John Malkovich
Malkovich is fluent in French, and for nearly 10 years lived and worked in a theater in Southern France (although he later denied that he ever lived there and only stayed 5 weeks during the summer). He and his family left France in a dispute over taxes in 2003, and since then he has lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUfDSduCQfA]
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