BTW, for anyone who likes the show The Good Place - I noticed that when Lauren speaks Italian, she sounds a bit like the Italian dub for Tahani. Especially when Lauren makes the "t" sound, it sounds exactly like the "posh" English-speaking-Italian accent the character has. When I first watched the Italian dub of the show, I thought it was kind of silly that her character had this accent, I guess to Italian ears it sounds like a British person. I didn't think it was real, and I haven't heard enough Brits speaking Italian to confirm, but just thought that was peculiar.
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Watching the first episode of Slow Tour that Squawkarelli is on (she was on two episodes) and I find it interesting she is depicted as always taking photos/selfies and gawking, they make fun of her (at one point the host is like “close your mouth!”). She sees a placard written in English and says “Ah finalmente posso capire qualcosa!” Did they make her say that? She doesn't talk all that much - she's in a bathing suit at some terme, chats with people at a market, rags on the host for being almost as old as the sword of St. Galgano, plays burraco with some old ladies. At least she's more jovial than in the Rai interview!
My friend Bailey is going to be on this Saturday’s episode and I’m excited to see her on it. Her Italian has improved by leaps and bounds since attending school there and I know when they were filming she was nervous about her Italian. I hope they give her a good edit and are nice. I wonder how much of it is scripted - I’ll have to find out from her if they asked Bailey to play up the “dumb foreigner” thing behind the scenes.
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LMFAO at the end of the episode the host introduces Lauren to a "digital detoxing" expert, introduced as someone who works with cellphone addiction and him and the host take her phone away before she goes into the Uffizi as a challenge to be more mindful.