Would the two popes have spoken to each other in English?

In the movie The Two Popes (2019), the two popes speak to each other in English. Does this reflect reality or was this done just for the movie? (It seems that in the actual brief footage, they speak to each other in Italian instead.)

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According to this article, Francis doesn't speak English particularly well, though he understands it.

“What has always caused the most problems for me has been English, especially the phonetics.” The reason, he said, is because he’s “tone deaf.”

However, he's proficient in Italian and prefers to use it in public duties.

Benedict and Francis share also a command of Spanish, German, French, and Latin. However, given the nature of the popes' interactions, I imagine the language they most likely spoke was, as you note in your question, Italian.

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Is the two popes in another language?

The Two Popes is a 2019 biographical drama film directed by Fernando Meirelles and written by Anthony McCarten, adapted from McCarten's play The Pope which premiered at Royal & Derngate Theatre in 2019....The Two PopesLanguagesEnglish Spanish ItalianBox office$758,71114 more rows

Can popes speak English?

The pope, whose ancestors are from northern Italy, speaks fluent, albeit accented, Italian, the language in which the vast majority of his public appearances are held. He admits openly that English is not his strength.

Did the two popes meet?

While the meeting in 2012 is a fiction, it's a fact that the two men met at Castel Gandolfo, but that was in March 2013, after Benedict had resigned and Bergoglio was already pope.

Was the two popes filmed in the Sistine Chapel?

'The Two Popes' couldn't film inside the Sistine Chapel. So Netflix built a bigger one. A major scene in Netflix's \u201cThe Two Popes\u201d required a reconstruction of the Sistine Chapel. \u201cThe Two Popes\u201d stars Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce as Pope Benedict XVI and the soon-to-be Pope Francis, respectively.

Pope Francis Speech | The Two Popes (2019)

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