What is the nationality of Felonious Gru?
I wonder what is the nationality of Felonious Gru from the movie Despicable Me. I have seen the movie both in English and Spanish, and both voice characterizations makes me think that he is East European (maybe Romanian), or perhaps Russian, but can't find any evidence of this.
My family recently watched the Minions movie, and according to them (beware, spoilers ahead)
there are scenes in the movie that points Gru to be from England. I believe this happens near the end of the movie, where the minions found Gru as a child near a beach I think... and as the second half of the movie takes place in London, at least we can tell that little Gru lived there as a child. However, that doesn't mean that he was born in England...
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A quick search seems to imply that no one knows.
Carrel appeared in character on Ellen DeGeneres' show and said he's from "Albuquerque, New Mexico" but there's no way to know if he was being serious or not.
It's around 1:50 in the clip below:
As you can see, she seems to doubt what he says and his response is "Don't push this topic!"
It seems completely within character for him to hedge about where he's from.
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Is felonious GRU French?
TL,DR: Gru is Hungarian. That makes sense. I thought he was french until he started speaking.Is GRU Russian or German?
The name of the main protagonist, Gru, appears to be taken from the Russian Military Intelligence agency G.R.U. G.R.U. is an acronym for Glavnoye Razvedyvatel'noye Upravleniye (roughly translates to Main Intelligent Department/Directorate), the foreign military intelligence directorate of the Russian Armed Forces.Is Gru supposed to be Russian?
The Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, formerly the Main Intelligence Directorate, and still commonly known by its previous abbreviation GRU, is the foreign military intelligence agency of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.Despicable Me: Steve Carrell
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