Elisha not so french · Jul 20, 10:57 AM by Elisha Fan
Elisha recent shared that she is very reliveced not to have been asked to dub her character, Kimberly Bauer from the hit series 24, for its recent foray into the French Canadian networks. She insists while she grew up in Montreal and knows enough french to order food, shop etc she feels if her TV bosses had asked her to dub the character in french she would have butchered the language.
She explains, “They have very strict rules to make sure the people that do dub over the voice are mother-tongue French and their first language is the French language. “Unfortunately, I grew up speaking English at home and certainly do not have the ability or the authority to tell them that I’m good enough to speak the language. I do speak French when I go home and it’s sweet and it’s fun but it’s certainly not good enough for the French public. “If I’m out and about ordering food, shopping and what not, of course I speak French – it’s is a huge part of Montreal and, growing up in that sort of environment, you had to sort of know how to speak it to a certain extent. “But it’s a difficult language with a lot of rules and I would hate to put myself in the position to sort of butcher it on TV.”
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