By Randee Dawn
Fans have known this for years, but while on TODAY promoting his new film "Casa de mi Padre," Will Ferrell confirmed it to Matt Lauer: "I'm a genius, man. I'm a genius."
"Genius" and sort-of-kind-of-fluent Spanish speaker, as it turns out. Ferrell made a risky move with his new film by speaking only Spanish in it and at one point even singing. (Everything is subtitled for the Spanish-challenged among us). "I started working with a translator about a month prior to filming," he explained, "and then it was literally every day and every night. I started dreaming in Spanish."
He was even able to compliment Lauer's hairline on request: "Senor Lauer, tu cabeza is muy guapo," he said. "Your head is very handsome."
"Padre" is a comedy, but Ferrell plays it very straight, describing it as a bad Mexican spaghetti Western-meets-'Scarface'-meets Quentin Tarantino. Unfortunately, he wasn't able to ad-lib, since he had to stick to speaking Spanish.
But he was able to have a love scene that he rates -- on a scale of 1 to 10 -- as a zero. "This is the most unsexy sex scene ever committed to film. But yet the silliest I think I've ever seen," he said.
Well, even geniuses aren't perfect.
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