Hilary Swank Speaks 'Italian' | CONAN on TBS

Hilary can speak really great English in an Italian accent.

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Hilary Swank Speaks "Italian" | CONAN on TBS

[mattdrake]

Io da buon italiano, oltre ad avere i baffi e mangiare spaghetti dalla mattina alla sera, non esco mai di casa senza il mandolino.

[franczi]

Everytime I see a non-italian randomly using that gesture while trying to speak italian I die a little

[Cecilia-pvyg]

flash news: we don't like it when you "talk like that" (*adds some random hand gesture)

[mado]

I'm not even Italian and it really gets on my nerves when people try to fake their accent, like wtf.

[RePapero]

"un bicchiere d'acqua porca madonna!" everybody would understand this in Italy

[charlesdarks]

The problem is in USA they think all italians speak with the same accent, that it's basically the accent that is famous in USA because of movies. Many italians that went to USA at the beginning of 1900 and after the WW2, were from South of Italy and their accent is completely different from Center or North of Italy, not only when they speak english, but also when they speak italian. So clearly Hillary is not very aware of how italians speak, and maybe Conan is backing her because it's supposingly funny.

[alicecoloretti]

Qualcuno mi spieghi da quando noi italiani abbiamo i baffi

[zainabneb]

That’s stupid, no one in Italy talks that way

[Buio]

This interview is the festival of Italian stereotypes

[Bianca-jsgv]

Ma è sicura che non si sia confusa con un altro paese?!? 😂No, perché in Italia quando chiedo : ‘un bicchiere d’acqua, per favore’, ti portano tranquillamente un bicchiere d’acqua! Senza gesticolare, urlare, o tirare fuori il mandolino!! Strano, ma vero😂
e Tutti gli uomini con i baffi?!? a me capita raramente di vederne in giro! ... forse chiudono in una scatola tanti piccoli super Mario e li liberano appena arriva un americano! 🤷🏼‍♀️😂

she speaks italian in the same way Brad Pitt does in Inglorious bastards. "Sììì è cuuretto. ggrruuaazie. Auurrivuedercci"

[ELE-gqbm]

Ah beh, detto da gente che parla sempre come se avesse un copertone di gomma fra i denti...

[Paddina]

You know I always try to say something positive. Therefore I have nothing to say about this video.
Love,
An Italian

[enricabini]

Il conduttore ha il solito parrucchino a banana dei personaggi televisivi americani.
Questo è uno stereotipo reale

[laurafumagalli]

Ma perché urlano mentre cercano di parlare italiano che urto

[TheRamboBeast]

This stereotypical way of speaking Italian in a sing-song voice is actually mostly false. It is somewhat true of Neopolitan Italian dialect, but largely untrue of most Italian. Compared to American English, there is a little more sing-song quality to mainstream Italian, but really it is minor and nowhere near what these TV shows make you believe.

[giulios.]

Quattro mesi per parlare così...
Un genio.
Quattro mesi in italia e ancora crede a tutti questi luoghi comuni.
Un genio.
I baffi, si, tutti coi baffi in Italia, è pieno...
Un genio.
Fare lo stesso gesto con la mano (che significa una cosa sola) in ogni contesto, rigorosamente fuori luogo. E farlo con entrambe le mani, cosa che in Italia non fa nessuno.
E parlare con quella cantilena assurda, una calata che in Italia non esiste.
Veramente bravissima.
Lei e il roscio, bravi entrambe.

[cristinamingione]

You know that the first time you'll cross an italian they Will chop your hands off if you continue to do that thing that you did at the end? You do, right? STOP IT!

[mollymole]

that accent you do trying to sound italian DOESN'T EXIST in italy, it's offensive and it's starting to get boring. Plus, you said "un bicchere d'acqua" correctly, so an italian would have easily understood it. That gesture you do at the end, so famous around the world, yes, we do it often, but not like that, it's more composed and appropriate, depending on what we're talking about, it's not something we do for no reason as you do, mocking our cultural language. Pulling sterotypes it's close to being racist in my opinion. Bad taste interview, very disrespectful and full of arrogance.

[alessandrosantacroce]

Italian is one of the hardest languages to learn, I’d just like for you Americans to stop talking with that super Mario accent, we don’t speak like that.