in Italy grabbing balls is an ancient ritual magic/religious gesture whose purpose is to avoid death and bad luck. However who does it is generally considered a zotic
One could also said that it is also closely correlated with the "corna" (the 'rock out' gesture so to speak). They both arch back to the apotropaic nature of the phallus in ancient roman and greek culture. And Yes, I Think this is the most elegant and delicate way to explain why we touch our balls. 🤘🤘
I never even questioned that men grabbing their balls for superstition was universal. We have so many gestures in Italy that are just so common that we kinda forget it's a thing in here only.
Leggevo che il marito ha origini nobili. Se fossi lui e sapessi che mia moglie ha raccontato in tv di me che ho l'abitudine di toccarmi le palle mi incavolerei non poco 😅
In Italy "grabbing your balls" for men is a superstitious gesture against bad luck. Like touching wood in the UK. But you're not supposed to actually grab them, just to pretend you're doing it lol (and it's also pretty vulgar, so not everybody does that)
And that's because in Italy, instead of knocking on wood to ward off bad luck, we must touch iron. Ironically we say we have balls of iron and we grab them against bad luck.
@@TheTafano82 They're not Italians. But America is controlled by people with norther-european origins, and they consider everyone else and minorities exotic. That's xenophoby. it's the same reason why there's still ghettos there. No american with english or dutch origins would call himself "dutch" or "english".
As Italian I’m really surprised that a lot of people know the word “cazzo” (which is the best Word to swear with). Well it is used as much as “shit” in english, you can kinda squeeze it in every sentence and never lose the meaning
I'm so sick that in my free time from working on ITALIAN HEADWAY (a program for foreign students learning Italian) I still watch to these types of videos 🤣 Amo troppo la lingua italiana 🇮🇹
shes so gracious and intelligent. i always have a lot of new different celebrity crushes in life lol but i always go back to jessica chastain. shes the best
Theres something about the intelligence of a man like Stephen that is a breath of fresh air. His ability to just randomly spurt out lines from various plays, and historical documents and events is incredible.
@@ele_99 Si anche la parte sui testicoli e il fischio non ha molto senso. Non è comunissimo, e di solito lo si fa tra amici scherzosamente o in situazioni particolari, è più un modo di dire divertente. Secondo me è il marito che esagera un po' certi stereotipi per farla divertire. [Eng] Even the "grabbing testicles" part is a little bit exaggerated and doesn't make much sense. It's not a common gesture and is more like a thing you do with your friends or in particular situations to use a funny expression. I think her husband emphasizes some Italian stereotypical gesturality to show her a good time.
Chastain worked as a nurse some time ago, and she read so much about Gnosticism that it seemed as if she had truly met Sophia and loved her very much. When she was a nurse she saved the life of a little girl telling her stories.😇😊
She's one of my favorite actresses of all time! Every role she gives 101% even if the movie is crap! She should've won the Oscar for Zero Dark Thirty! Plus she's a redhead like me! #Represent
The gesture that she doesn't knew what meant (where her husband grabs his crotch), basically means "not gonna happen" (like if he was saying the world to Suck it) .. it took me a while to understand that one, and I speak italian and live in Italy for almost 2 years now :)
Bruna B. Oss it's mostly against bad luck, just like in Italy we touch iron or in Britain they touch wood, as a female I usually knock on something made of iron
Bruna B. Oss thanks for that Tesoro coz I couldnt figure it out for the life of me what he was going for but your explanation of not gonna happen/suck it world makes much more sense. Where I am they just tell me "fuck off, stupid English" (not even kidding, it's a thing here with my boyfriend and friends to call me this)instead of a mere gesture or even dare express reassurance lol
I like the way she said 2 ppl there. I've heard other people akin marriage to it being a bicycle. You're each a peddle and you have to worth together to keep going through life but, you are each your own person with your own life, you're just going through it side by side. In some ways, i kinda find that Idea even more romantic than never leaving each others side. It's like, my love for you is strong enough that I want you to live and have your own life and we can share and revel in our lives, together.
The together shots look like a pastel drawing of a turn of the century lady next to a painting of a 50's business man that happen to be placed so they look like they're talking to each other.
yeh, thats pretty common lol we just dont care for these things, for example, usually men wearing pink shirts and drinking cocktails is seen as "gay" in other countries, but in italy we just dont care, if we like something (like a pink shirt or a cocktail) we do it without caring
JIMN I don’t know which part of Italy you’re from but the balls (balle) touching is not so common at least in the Milano area I’ve never seen anyone doing i, maybe you’re the weird one but don’t involve the rest of the Italians spreading another of those stupid cliches. You also did not note that the description of the horns (cornuto) sign with the fingers in Italy is totally different of what was said here because it means “ you have horns on your head because your wife is cheating on you”
i imagine you're not even italian, because the balls one is "typical" Italian....perhaps not the most common gesture at all, but it is used sometimes when someone wishes you "sfiga" in italy The horns one can have multiple meanings, one of them is what you said, but it can also be used (again) when someone wishes you bad luck, and you show the horns saying "tiè" If you were italian, you'd know this and you'd also know how different we are...North, Central and South Italy are all diverse and sometimes dont even use the same gestures Found this explaining the ball scratching: "The gesture involves using the left hand to mimic scratching a left testicle. Italian men do this anytime, anywhere -- but it doesn't necessarily mean they're feeling itchy. In Italy, scratching down there is believed to keep evil spirits away and is done whenever a vaguely sinister event transpires."
JIMN i am sure you are not italian, i was born an lived in Italy from birth in a small town near Milano called Brugherio, and the fact that you assume to know what is “typical Italian” just underline the fact that you have no idea that Italy like any other country is a diverse culture and what you may consider typical is considered gross by many, as i said I cannot recall anyone i know ever doing that, i am not excluding someone will be doing it, just don’t expect to go to Italy and see Italian touching their ball at any corner, they have better thing to do.
See Colbert is awesome because he's ok with curse words on his show unlike overrated Jimmy Fallon. Stephen Colbert has no boundaries with comedy which is great! That's how comedy should be!
I guess her husband is a businessman. In northern Italy most businessmen think that making money is a sacred thing that allows them to be vulgar and rude in any situation.
It must be said: I appreciate Stephen Colbert because he knows how to let his guests speak unlike Jimmy Fallon with his interjections every other sentence.
In the USA it's common to say something like “He's Italian” in the sense that he's descended from Italian immigrants, hence the need for clarification.
To explain the second gesture, an ancient Roman saying against bad luck is needed: “In omnia pericula tasta testicula”. It means: “In every danger touch your balls”.
WTH are you talking about? There are regional "feuds" and jokes about other regions not being part of Italy (and some of these jokes are taken seriously by the racist fringes), but in no way Sicilians despise being called Italian. There's even a joke that the entire region of Molise does not exist... you can't take these things seriously :)
Apparently Italo-americans describe themselves as Italians. Dumb, I know. Many of them don't even speak Italian or know that chicken parmesan doesn't exist here in Italy -.-"
That's funny, I grew up in a predominantly Italian neighborhood in the Bronx and the majority of people I knew were Sicilian. They were very proud "Italians." In that yes, they said they were Sicilian but they also claimed Italian like crazy. I guess it depends on where you are.
The gesture her husband's sister does is mostly done to toddlers learning to speak, people who don't speak italian or people who are across the room and/or can't hear you well, just to help convey the message idk just to clarify you won't see adult italians do this to other people normally
About the whisteling and touching balls, it's something men do against bad luck when someone says something like that. It isn't nice to do, to me is a little vulgar, but it's common. Also, I never heard someone whisteling doing it but it isn't a weird association.
in Italy grabbing balls is an ancient ritual magic/religious gesture whose purpose is to avoid death and bad luck. However who does it is generally considered a zotic
One could also said that it is also closely correlated with the "corna" (the 'rock out' gesture so to speak). They both arch back to the apotropaic nature of the phallus in ancient roman and greek culture. And Yes, I Think this is the most elegant and delicate way to explain why we touch our balls. 🤘🤘
Surely I am a zotic, but it feels like my balls will ache if I don't grab them when I see a nun or an empty hearse...
I'm italian and never saw anybody doing that, fortunately 😂😂😂
@@simonepalamini6220 come cazzo hai fatto😂
@@simonepalamini6220 Whaaat? we always do it ahahah
She comes off as someone who really loves acting more than anything else surrounding the whole "Hollywood actress" thing
eryn1992 she also doesnt come off as a snobby actor either like someone as good as her would
I never even questioned that men grabbing their balls for superstition was universal. We have so many gestures in Italy that are just so common that we kinda forget it's a thing in here only.
al sud non si fa tanto questa cosa
Come minimo ogni volta che passa un'ambulanza bisogna afferrarseli
This woman is amazing, so much comprised together and that special, recognizable laughter. Infinate admiration and love for her!
Her whole look is GORGEOUS. Also, Stephen is brilliant
Madeleine Marine Stephen is gorgeous too! Possibly (probably, I said possibly out of politeness) more
You get a car! Love him 💕
She’s such a goofball, I love her
4:10 I'm italian, It's all true but the whistle is not necessary
Non ho mai sentito di gente che fischia prima di toccarsi i testicoli. Magari è un'usanza di qualche regione specifica come il Veneto, boh? 😅
We do whistle sometimes, but it's true that it's not really necessary, it's the balls grabbing part that's important.
Io ho sentito fischiare facendo il gesto dell'ombrello
@@palmadiolio3157 quello sempre 😂
th-cam.com/video/UNfml6bla8M/w-d-xo.html Lo fa pure Boldi col fischio, minuto 1:10
Pretty sure the bleeped out Italian swear word was “Cazzo” for anyone wondering.
Jonathan Charles nope.
What bout 'vaffanculo' ? greets
Yeah, it was "cazzo"
Italian here, yeah, it's "cazzo"
It was in fact cazzo. I learned it from Ezio.
I'm quite disappointed, i was expecting some kind of creative blasphemy considering her husband is from Veneto!
Maybe she didn't want or couldn't expose herself too much Dio caro e rimorchio!
😂 totally...they are the poets of swearing.
She's so sweet to talk as veneto's people talking 😂
Veneto rich people not normally
Leggevo che il marito ha origini nobili. Se fossi lui e sapessi che mia moglie ha raccontato in tv di me che ho l'abitudine di toccarmi le palle mi incavolerei non poco 😅
In Italy "grabbing your balls" for men is a superstitious gesture against bad luck. Like touching wood in the UK. But you're not supposed to actually grab them, just to pretend you're doing it lol (and it's also pretty vulgar, so not everybody does that)
it's also pretty vulgar, people don't do it so often in public, even when meant ironically
Yep, that's what Jessica said.
And that's because in Italy, instead of knocking on wood to ward off bad luck, we must touch iron.
Ironically we say we have balls of iron and we grab them against bad luck.
At the very least when the hearse passes you have to touch your balls.
"Your hair is winter fire,
January embers.
My heart burns there, too."
benverly 🥰🥰🥰
DO YA WANT A BALLOON?
Big discovery, Italians come from Italy, French from France, and Irish from Ireland.
In the US there's "italians" that are not from Italy
@@TheTafano82 in the US nobody is from US
@@TheTafano82 They're not Italians. But America is controlled by people with norther-european origins, and they consider everyone else and minorities exotic. That's xenophoby. it's the same reason why there's still ghettos there. No american with english or dutch origins would call himself "dutch" or "english".
🤯
@@TheTafano82 if they are in the Us, born and raised there... well spoiler alert they are americans 😂😂😂
Jessica Chastain is so thoughtful and bright, both on the screen and as herself. I absolutely adore her!
If you only ever learn one Italian swear word it should be "Fanculo", it can pretty much fit in any scenario.
As does "cazzo", the one she's saying.
When you're really pissed, you should use them together, like "Fanculo, cazzo!"
That's the proper way of swearing.
As Italian I’m really surprised that a lot of people know the word “cazzo” (which is the best Word to swear with). Well it is used as much as “shit” in english, you can kinda squeeze it in every sentence and never lose the meaning
La metà del pubblico è italiano li…ci sono stato varie volte
cazzo is my favorite italian word (i'm italian)
I'm so sick that in my free time from working on ITALIAN HEADWAY (a program for foreign students learning Italian) I still watch to these types of videos 🤣 Amo troppo la lingua italiana 🇮🇹
One of the best guests of Colbert: sparring was good but more so Chastain personal shines. More power, fellow woman!
Cazzo is a delicious first dish.
Don't wanna taste it 😂
Lol.
Of fish
Hehehhehehe
Murph!!!
Don’t let him leave
Left Hand Don't let him leave Murph!
Such a damn great movie!
Pretty sure she said 'cazzo'.
bobzap lol yeah, I was expecting a fanculo at least haha
@@adireloaded Me too! I was slightly disappointed hahah LOL. P.s yes, she said CAZZO ("FUCK") on national television. :)
@@adireloaded she said Veneto, I was expecting "dio can"
One of the best actresses out there. And she loves shakespear.❤
MultiKarola24 Shakespeare*
@@vikrantsubakade9281 *shakes pear/ pear shakes.
shes so gracious and intelligent. i always have a lot of new different celebrity crushes in life lol but i always go back to jessica chastain. shes the best
Colbert is so lovely when he shows his nerdy side.
Theres something about the intelligence of a man like Stephen that is a breath of fresh air. His ability to just randomly spurt out lines from various plays, and historical documents and events is incredible.
Top-notch actress right here!
'Your husband is Italian from Italy'... Where the fuck else are Italians from!? 🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️😂
What a great interview!!! That was one good balance of wit and fun.
Her laughter can cure cancer.
Her laugh can cause cancer
My favourite Hollywood actress.........brilliantly talented and beautiful as well.
I mean. The "the food is good" gesture is something babies do. It's... weird for an adult to do that.
You're so right! People use to do that with babies, but I don't see any adult do it, it's just weird
@@ele_99 Si anche la parte sui testicoli e il fischio non ha molto senso. Non è comunissimo, e di solito lo si fa tra amici scherzosamente o in situazioni particolari, è più un modo di dire divertente. Secondo me è il marito che esagera un po' certi stereotipi per farla divertire.
[Eng]
Even the "grabbing testicles" part is a little bit exaggerated and doesn't make much sense. It's not a common gesture and is more like a thing you do with your friends or in particular situations to use a funny expression. I think her husband emphasizes some Italian stereotypical gesturality to show her a good time.
@@galasgi Col fischio poi non l'ho mai visto fare. Bho.
In veneto é comunissimo!!
7:16 she's legitimately impressed.
She is absolutely adorable on top of a talen actress. Ti adoro❤❤❤🇮🇹
7:52 - been waiting for this film, it's 2021 now. I hope to see it soon!
She has the perfect face in showbiz. So symmetrical
Chastain worked as a nurse some time ago, and she read so much about Gnosticism that it seemed as if she had truly met Sophia and loved her very much. When she was a nurse she saved the life of a little girl telling her stories.😇😊
Jessica is the most beautiful actress in the whole world and her smile is divine...
She's one of my favorite actresses of all time! Every role she gives 101% even if the movie is crap! She should've won the Oscar for Zero Dark Thirty! Plus she's a redhead like me! #Represent
The gesture that she doesn't knew what meant (where her husband grabs his crotch), basically means "not gonna happen" (like if he was saying the world to Suck it) .. it took me a while to understand that one, and I speak italian and live in Italy for almost 2 years now :)
Bruna B. Oss it's mostly against bad luck, just like in Italy we touch iron or in Britain they touch wood, as a female I usually knock on something made of iron
Bruna B. Oss thanks for that Tesoro coz I couldnt figure it out for the life of me what he was going for but your explanation of not gonna happen/suck it world makes much more sense.
Where I am they just tell me "fuck off, stupid English" (not even kidding, it's a thing here with my boyfriend and friends to call me this)instead of a mere gesture or even dare express reassurance lol
Maria Chiara is right, it's against bad luck!
It was so funny to me, I knew exactly what it was 😂 (South American, lots of Italian influence here)
I like the way she said 2 ppl there. I've heard other people akin marriage to it being a bicycle. You're each a peddle and you have to worth together to keep going through life but, you are each your own person with your own life, you're just going through it side by side. In some ways, i kinda find that Idea even more romantic than never leaving each others side. It's like, my love for you is strong enough that I want you to live and have your own life and we can share and revel in our lives, together.
It's sooo cute to see her this innocent while saying "ca**o", lol
Wow, that tiny opening clip was magnetic!
The together shots look like a pastel drawing of a turn of the century lady next to a painting of a 50's business man that happen to be placed so they look like they're talking to each other.
❤️❤️❤️❤️ to our brothers in the US!! From Italy
Very beautiful interview. Very beautiful. Thank you Jessica. Thank you.
-From a Dakota woman.
Ghost dances and lots of native work in WWA. Should be good!
everything she's said, we all do here in italy
we're weird, i know
What's the thing with whistling, and grabbing your nuts to ward off bad luck/ evil thoughts??
yeh, thats pretty common lol
we just dont care for these things, for example, usually men wearing pink shirts and drinking cocktails is seen as "gay" in other countries, but in italy we just dont care, if we like something (like a pink shirt or a cocktail) we do it without caring
JIMN I don’t know which part of Italy you’re from but the balls (balle) touching is not so common at least in the Milano area I’ve never seen anyone doing i, maybe you’re the weird one but don’t involve the rest of the Italians spreading another of those stupid cliches.
You also did not note that the description of the horns (cornuto) sign with the fingers in Italy is totally different of what was said here because it means “ you have horns on your head because your wife is cheating on you”
i imagine you're not even italian, because the balls one is "typical" Italian....perhaps not the most common gesture at all, but it is used sometimes when someone wishes you "sfiga" in italy
The horns one can have multiple meanings, one of them is what you said, but it can also be used (again) when someone wishes you bad luck, and you show the horns saying "tiè"
If you were italian, you'd know this and you'd also know how different we are...North, Central and South Italy are all diverse and sometimes dont even use the same gestures
Found this explaining the ball scratching:
"The gesture involves using the left hand to mimic scratching a left testicle.
Italian men do this anytime, anywhere -- but it doesn't necessarily mean they're feeling itchy.
In Italy, scratching down there is believed to keep evil spirits away and is done whenever a vaguely sinister event transpires."
JIMN i am sure you are not italian, i was born an lived in Italy from birth in a small town near Milano called Brugherio, and the fact that you assume to know what is “typical Italian” just underline the fact that you have no idea that Italy like any other country is a diverse culture and what you may consider typical is considered gross by many, as i said I cannot recall anyone i know ever doing that, i am not excluding someone will be doing it, just don’t expect to go to Italy and see Italian touching their ball at any corner, they have better thing to do.
"live more, yes. thats what i want to do"
See Colbert is awesome because he's ok with curse words on his show unlike overrated Jimmy Fallon. Stephen Colbert has no boundaries with comedy which is great! That's how comedy should be!
Mega MovieZ
I don't know if Jimmy himself is against it, but the networks are strongly against it.
But Jimmy does react way to skittish about it.
I love Stephen talks about Shakespear.
"I can still play 14!" 😂😂😂😂
She's so beautiful and nice that I could hear her all day
Being from SAn Francisco, it's lovely to hear her mention her admiration for Marco Barricelli
I love how she specifies that he is from Veneto!
I guess her husband is a businessman. In northern Italy most businessmen think that making money is a sacred thing that allows them to be vulgar and rude in any situation.
Gratatio pallorum omnia mala fugat"
traduzione:
grattarsi le palle allontana tutti i mali
antichi romani
Jessica Chastain = Gorgeous+Talent. Love her so much!
Loved her in Jurassic World
That's Bryce Dallas Howard.
esudo r/whoosh
That was Christina Hendricks
That was actually Isla Fisher
Ginger lives matter
She's doing A LOT for women. Respect!!
6:11 Celia Foote, your Sugar Ditch accent is showing.
Stephen is so hot when he quotes poetry.
She left Matt Damon behind on Mars
It must be said: I appreciate Stephen Colbert because he knows how to let his guests speak unlike Jimmy Fallon with his interjections every other sentence.
Can't wait to see her in the second chapter of IT.
Wow, look at Colbert go!
That's called 'Tocca Palle' , thats to ward off bad luck
Whenever I hear Jessica Chastain's Italian accent, I just hear gia.
this interview was just lovely.....
Italians come from Italy, Germans come from Germany and Cambodians come from Cambodia.
What a great discovery...
In the USA it's common to say something like “He's Italian” in the sense that he's descended from Italian immigrants, hence the need for clarification.
U was very great in it chapter 2! Realy a looot! 😁 so Gorgeus!
omg she needs another oscar nod like yesterday!! one of the best actresses in hollywood
She's a talented and beautiful actress.
Se fai le corna così significa cornuto, per togliere la sfiga si fanno in basso
She's a very cool person! Smart, engaged, and engaging.
To explain the second gesture, an ancient Roman saying against bad luck is needed: “In omnia pericula tasta testicula”. It means: “In every danger touch your balls”.
AMAZING PERFORMANCE in "The Help"
BRAVISSIMA🇮🇹
Two movies back to back. Man, she does work a lot. It's like I only saw her yesterday in that Jurassic Park sequel.
unacomn she doesn’t play in Jurassic World. The actress in that movie is Bryce Dallas Howard
No, that was Amy Adams.
I'm sure that was Isla Fisher
Remember, you grab your balls with your left hand against bad luck
3:54 That gesture is the devil horns originated by Ronnie James Dio inspired by his Italian grandmother.
I’ve seen Benedict Cumberbatch as Richard III, and... yeah. I get it.
lol "itallian from italy" , is there another kind ?
Well, In the US there's the feared Italian from New Jersey :P
Sicilians absolutely despise being called italian, so there's a definite distinction depending on regions
WTH are you talking about?
There are regional "feuds" and jokes about other regions not being part of Italy (and some of these jokes are taken seriously by the racist fringes), but in no way Sicilians despise being called Italian.
There's even a joke that the entire region of Molise does not exist... you can't take these things seriously :)
Apparently Italo-americans describe themselves as Italians. Dumb, I know. Many of them don't even speak Italian or know that chicken parmesan doesn't exist here in Italy -.-"
That's funny, I grew up in a predominantly Italian neighborhood in the Bronx and the majority of people I knew were Sicilian. They were very proud "Italians." In that yes, they said they were Sicilian but they also claimed Italian like crazy. I guess it depends on where you are.
I love her. ❤
Stephen's memory is amazing!
The gesture her husband's sister does is mostly done to toddlers learning to speak, people who don't speak italian or people who are across the room and/or can't hear you well, just to help convey the message idk
just to clarify you won't see adult italians do this to other people normally
Jessica Chastain Voiced Nicole Watterson In Geno White Vs (2011)
Date: December 6 2011
Her voice❤ Her beauty❤ Gosh, i'll marry her even if she turns 60❤❤❤❤
Be italian is the funniest thing in the world, and yall non-italian are missing out.
Dirty words; Sporco, sozzo, lordo, sconcio, lurido!!! 🤔
Ahahah è vero!! xD
“LEZZO!”
Hahaha Grazie Vienna Rowlings 😊
tunch90 doesn't "lezzo" means stench? 😊
Whats the meaning of its of them?
They should totally do a comedy bit with Stephen as Juliet and Jessica as Romeo ;-)
Scratching testicles is like knocking on the wood.
What does it mean when you knock on wood? I mean, it's against bad luck, but... what's the story about it? 🙂
Jessica chastain is absolutely gorgeous.
About the whisteling and touching balls, it's something men do against bad luck when someone says something like that. It isn't nice to do, to me is a little vulgar, but it's common. Also, I never heard someone whisteling doing it but it isn't a weird association.
Arianna Medri hmm. Interesting! Thanks for the info
and also, I think it´s just the left one. and women do it too with their boobs. no?
Javi Schraiber tbh I've never seen a girl doing it, but I know about it, so maybe it's something women used to do or do just in some areas
Javi Schraiber women touching their boobs, yes. Never heard about the left testicle thing, tho
Javi Schraiber when I was a young and impressionable italian I would touch my left boob with my right hand anytime an ambulance would pass by me
HAHAHAHAHAHA MA CHE CAZZO STO VEDENDO HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
If you can go 5-6 years without wanting to kill each other you have something special.
Does anybody know what song is played by the band when she comes to the stage?
Loved her in interstellar, I had no idea her husband is from my country
Was she glad that she wasn't the one that had to eat Minnie's pie in the Help.
Good actress with a beautiful smile
I love Jessica Chastain ❤
Molly’s gameeee
She's so lovely
Love her lipstick
she made an offer that he can't refuse