John Wilson

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3,430 appearances 25 recordings 9 series first heard May 2026 last heard 2d ago

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This Cultural Life · Kristin Scott Thomas · 4 Jun 2026 podcast

And we have told in the UK, we've told domestic and psychological sort of dramas, if you like, we've told them for television.

Now in France, those stories are told on screens in cinemas.

Dramas of that quality.

Yeah.

Does the French language make you a different actor, do you think?

I think probably it does, although I'm not the right person to ask that.

Are you told you have an accent in France?

Yes, I do have an accent, but they don't mind accents.

They're very funny about accents because it's Europe and European cinema was so tightly knit.

You get all this French-Italian productions from the 50s and 60s.

So you get Claudia Cardinal and she has a funny accent.

You get Jane Birkin, who was massively successful in France as an actress.

Huge star with her very, very, very strong accent anglais.

And Charlotte Rampling.

I mean, there are lots of us who will have slightly foreign accents, but they don't mind.

And in terms of inhabiting a character, understanding the character, it all starts with the script.

But in the language itself, do you feel as at ease with the French when you're acting as you are now?

I think after a while, I've just done a film in France, actually, funnily enough, in October last year.

And it took me a while to kind of trust myself again with the words.

I do get a little bit confused and I do speak terrible Franglais and I will...

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