Dubbed in Rome

It is with much pride and joy that I present to you this exclusive interview with one of real pillars of the dubbing scene in Rome: the great Geneviève Hersent , whose wonderful voice graced Italian films for more than 30 years, and in three different languages! Truth be told, this is an interview that almost didn’t happen, because I’d nearly given up the hope of ever being able to identify Geneviève! I’ve been fascinated by the dubbing of Italian films ever since the 2000s, and through the years, I’ve spent considerable hours acting as a ‘dubbing detective’. A work that’s amazingly fun whenever you manage to actually identify a familiar dubbing voice, but which more often than not is frankly quite difficult and frustrating – at least when it comes to English dubbing. Because Italian films never included English dubbing credits, and so trying to identify the English voices from films dubbed in Rome can often feel like searching for the proverbial needle in a haystack. Out of all t