Struggling to tell masculine from feminine? Fear not. Hollywood’s No. 1 francophile, Johnny Depp, is in the same boat. The 47-year-old star may consider France his spiritual home and have Parisian actress and singer Vanessa Paradis as his companion to help, but like so many before him, the subtleties of the Gallic tongue are proving a little frustrating.
Speaking to Reuters ahead of next week’s premiere of action-filled, romantic comedy “The Tourist,” in which he stars with Oscar winner Angelina Jolie, Depp smiles when asked how his French is coming along. “Good? I don’t know. It’s difficult still, the conjugation ... the masculine and feminine thing,” he said in French with a hint of an American accent. Then, he added in slang. “It drives me nuts.”
Depp met Paradis in 1998 and the couple now divide their time between the Hollywood Hills and a farm in southern France as well as homes near Paris, Manhattan and the Bahamas.
