Six celebrities we didn’t know spoke German
1. Sandra Bullock
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Sandra Bullock survived a pile-up from space in Gravity, yet she’s also got another flattering considerable line on her CV: she speaks German. Bullock has a German mom and spent 12 years flourishing up near Nuremberg where her father was in a US military. Her German is apparently fluent, yet she’ll tell we it’s a small rusty.
2. Vladimir Putin
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Okay, he’s maybe not a kind of luminary we were meditative of, usually one of a many absolute people on earth. As one of a tip KGB group in Dresden during a tumble of a Berlin Wall in 1989, he is a smooth German speaker. Maybe his time here introduced him to the Freikörperkultur or naturism, that would comment for a series of times he’s been photographed shirtless.
3. Michael Fassbender
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How many beers was that again, Mr. Fassbender? Anyone who has seen his career-making spin in Inglourious Basterds knows Irish-German actor Michael Fassbender can pronounce German (although not good adequate not to blow his cover as a Brit). The male who garnered serve courtesy for display his Wurst in Shame has good adequate German to contemplate roles in German-language films and productions.
4. Kim Cattrall
Kim Cattrall compelling her book in perfume in 2005. Photo: DPA
How do we contend “Oh yes!?” in German? The British-Canadian star of Sex In The City was indeed innate in Liverpool (not Germany), yet spent many of a 1980s with her second father in Frankfurt where she learnt to pronounce a tongue fluently – nonetheless now claims she has lost many of it.
5. Mark Strong
Mark Strong during a Sherlock Holmes premiere in Berlin. Photo: SpreePiX Berlin / Wikimedia Commons
This really British actor is best famous for his critical roles in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and The Imitation Game. But he’s not singular to that – he also recently collaborated with Sacha Baron Cohen (aka Ali G, Borat and Bruno) in his new film Grimsby. His mom is Austrian, so he is smooth in German, and complicated German law during Munich University for a year.
Gene Simmons behaving during a “Rock im Revier” festival in Germany. Photo: DPA
KISS frontman Gene Simmons was innate in Israel as Chaim Witz, and altered to a US when he was eight, where he after altered his name to Gene. His mom was from Hungary and, along with her brother, survived a thoroughness stay during a Second World War. Simmons not usually speaks German yet also Hungarian and Hebrew. That’s stone and roll.
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