TIL that Alexis Bledel‘s first language is Spanish



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    1. trillianinspace on

      Another fun fact is that Alexis is her middle name and a stage name. Her real name is Kimberly.

    2. LichQueenBarbie on

      I dont have any proximity to the Spanish language, Europe, or South America, so I can’t say how things are perceived more close up, but… Spanish people are white or in her case, a lot of Argentinan people are white anyway? Where is this considered surprising?

    3. She once did a walking tour on Ellen in the WB lot back in the early Gilmore Girls days where she translated everything Ellen said in Spanish.

    4. After Djimon Hounsou greeted a French tv interviewer in French, the interviewer seemed surprised at his fluency and asked if he was French.

      He replied I was born in Benin (a country in West Africa) and moved to France when I was a child. I’m American and speak English these days, but French is my mother tongue and a language I’ll always love.

      That was when I learned Benin’s official language is French and that Benin was a French colony until 1960 (Djimon was born four years later).

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