You might think that this would present an impossible challenge to overcome, with there being an ever-present possibility of detail lost in translation on set, but that crisis was entirely averted thanks to two expert translators – who I learned about recently from stars Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem.
The making of the new drama Everybody Knows included an interesting challenge that most film productions don’t face.
While the film is set in Spain, and features Spanish actors speaking almost exclusively Spanish, it’s made by an Iranian filmmaker, Oscar-nominated Asghar Farhadi, who doesn’t know the language.