If Biaggo is Italian...


... why was he speaking Spanish with his father? Did I miss something?

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that didn't make sense to me either...his name is italian..he said something during the movie about an italian demon, but then he speaks spanish to his father.. i thought maybe his italian was bad so i tried really hard to understand him, but it was actually spanish

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That must have been a joke or some mistake from the filmmakers. I remember something similar in Sex and the City. There was ths episode where Carrie was dating a Russian guy. When the guy was speaking to someone -supposedly in russian- he wasn't speaking russian actually, in fact, I doubt that he was speaking a real language at all.

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Just wanted to chip in: in Italy it would be Biagio, non Biaggio (which sorts of reminds me of the manufacter of the Vespa scooter named Piaggio). I'm Italian and I love how English speaking countries never get our double consonants :)
Anyway this just to say we don't always have to look for consistency and whatnot, just go with the flow!

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The actor's real parents are Colombian, so he's likely a native speaker of Spanish. The filmakers probably just went with it, instead of simply changing the character's ethnicity.

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I know that Italians can speak spanish or any other language. It just makes no sense within the context of the film.

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Maybe his father is Spanish and his mother is Italian?

and the doctor said, 'you're er, seven years pregnant... or summin like that'

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Simple, really: just because a person has a certain last name or ancestry, doesn't mean that he will speak that language. Most people in the U.S. who have a last name ending in "-ski" don't speak Polish, for example. Or Garcia's won't speak Spanish necessarily. It's the language of the family that is spoken, not the language of the last name. And by the way, yes, his Spanish is perfect, with a Colombian accent (like somebody previously said, his parents are Colombian).

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Most people in the U.S. who have a last name ending in "-ski" don't speak Polish, for example.

Yes, but they don't speak another unrelated language either, they speak English. You're just trying to justify the filmmakers' choice, but to me the explanation is even simpler: "Hey, we're doing this totally different and original and quirky movie. So let's just give the people several clues that Biaggio is Italian and then make him speak Spanish. That would be so cool and unexpected! And let's have the father reply in English, because normally the immigrant parent would speak the foreign language and the kid would reply in English. It doesn't make any sense or offer any new insights, but boy, it sure is quirky and kind of weird, so let's do it!"
There you go. Simple, really.

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