NO sense to read the book on this subject as Frances did not go alone to Tuscany but with her husband Ed, so this scene will not have happened.
In that scene Marcello indeed says "nephew" and Frances does not correct him again, probably because not wanting to insult him.
On the DVD commentary track, director Audrey Wells explains that in the script she had deliberately put some linguistic mistakes in Italian superstar Raoul Bova's mouth so as to make it look that he did not speak English quite perfectly but in reality that was also the case and she liked that a lot.
But she did not say if in his case it was his real mistake or whether it was in the script.
By the way, the weather seemed perfect in that scene but in reality it was bad weather for most of the time and they also were afraid that Bova's many female fans would show up and interrupt the scenes, but they were lucky.
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brentnevers
13 years ago
OP obviously has never spent much time around people who speak english as a second language...!
This is a common mistake....Spanish speakers make it all the time too.....they mix up husband/wife, brother/sister and niece/nephew.
English is easy to those who learned it first..!!!!!
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