French dubbing explained by the man who does Brad Pitt
The Earful Tower: Paris
Oliver Gee
4.8 • 749 Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2021
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
I've always had a lot of questions about France's obsession with dubbing films, so I sat down with Jean-Pierre Michael, who is the French voice of Brad Pitt and Keanu Reeves, to find out more.
He explains whether he voices each actor differently, if he gets recognized in daily life, and what happens if another actor were to voice Brad Pitt (it happened once, it wasn't pretty!)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone. This is the Earful Tower podcast. My name is Oliver G. Welcome to a show about Paris, a show about France. |
| 0:07.5 | My attempt to figure out this country, and a big part of figuring out France, is understanding, perhaps accepting, that they do movies a little bit differently here. |
| 0:18.6 | What am I talking about? I'm talking about dubbing. If you've |
| 0:22.0 | ever switched on a television set in France, you'll see that American and Australian and British |
| 0:28.3 | movies and TV shows are dubbed. And it's the same thing with movies. And I never really knew much |
| 0:35.4 | about this and I always had wanted to understand more. So I figured who |
| 0:39.5 | should I talk to about it? And I figured the best person to talk to would be someone who gives the |
| 0:45.6 | voice to one of the A-listers from Hollywood. And lucky for us all, we've got Brad Pitt. But not just |
| 0:53.0 | Brad Pitt. We got Keanu Reeves, Ethan Hawke, Michael |
| 0:56.3 | Fasbender, sometimes even Ben Affleck. And they're all voiced by the same gentleman. His name is |
| 1:01.7 | Jean-Pierre-Michaille. He's a French actor. He's not just a voice actor. He's an actor. You're |
| 1:06.4 | going to hear all about it. And he answers my many, many questions about the world of dubbing and it goes way deeper |
| 1:14.6 | than I thought I hope you enjoy this episode if you find yourself sitting there smiling nodding |
| 1:19.8 | thinking that you're learning something do me two favors one is tell your friends about the show |
| 1:26.0 | send it to your friends say check this out this is pretty |
| 1:28.4 | cool the other is follow jean pierre mikhail on instagram you hear us talking about it in the middle |
| 1:33.6 | i think it's always kind of funny when we do this his name on instagram is j p m official o f i c i and if you |
| 1:43.4 | do follow and find a recent picture. |
| 1:45.3 | Hey, maybe he'll put up a picture of him and I, |
| 1:47.3 | and put a comment on there with the emoji that you hear us mention halfway through. |
| 1:52.6 | It'll trip him out, and my thanks for that will be that you'll hear him doing his Brad Pitt voice halfway through, |
| 2:02.5 | talking about exactly this. |
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