If Biaggo is Italian...
... why was he speaking Spanish with his father? Did I miss something?
share... why was he speaking Spanish with his father? Did I miss something?
sharethat 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
shareThat 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.
shareJust 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!
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.
shareMaybe his father is Spanish and his mother is Italian?
and the doctor said, 'you're er, seven years pregnant... or summin like that'
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).
shareMost people in the U.S. who have a last name ending in "-ski" don't speak Polish, for example.