“I Was Colin Farell’s Latin Teacher”

[moon_custafer]

Apparently Farrell wanted his vampire character in the remake of Fright Night to speak some lines in Latin, to establish how ancient he was, and a classicist was called in as a dialect coach. Evidently she’s also a big Colin Farrell fan:

At last we got to the Latin. Colin had worked with my recording, and had the lines memorized already, so he said them out loud a few times. He got the necesseest elision beautifully, and his percipies pucker was indeed very sexy. He asked if he could switch the last two words, in order to end the line with the more powerful word somnia:
"It doesn't change the meaning, now does it, love?"
"Oh," I exclaimed a little too fervently, "You studied Latin in school in Dublin! That's why it was your idea to translate the lines into Latin!" Now I was a Rosetta Stone for Irish vampires.
"Nah, love,' he sighed dramatically. "They stopped Latin and corporal punishment the year before I came up... and ya see how I turned out?" With that he grinned, patted my thigh and leapt from the seat. "You'll be here tomorrow, right, love? We're shooting the scene tomorrow."

(Sadly, in the actual shooting of the scene Farrell’s vampire fangs wrecked his pronunciation, and the Latin dialogue was dropped.)

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[sovay]

(Sadly, in the actual shooting of the scene Farrell’s vampire fangs wrecked his pronunciation, and the Latin dialogue was dropped.)

I have somewhat anti-feelings toward the Fright Night remake and that is tragic.

[kore]

It's kind of terrible BUT it did give us David Tennant sashaying in leather pants (he's like a proto-Crowley!).

[kore]

(Sadly, in the actual shooting of the scene Farrell’s vampire fangs wrecked his pronunciation, and the Latin dialogue was dropped.)

That is VERY TRAGIC.