I updated the gallery this morning with new photos taken by Eva Blue of Emmanuelle on the set of French Immersion. Hopefully more will pop up soon.

Emmanuelle Vaugier is familiar to TV viewers for trading bullets with bad guys but her latest role sees her tangling instead with French verbs and tenses.

Vaugier is one of the all-star cast in “French Immersion,” a Canadian comedy from some of the same minds behind the buddy cop comedy “Bon Cop Bad Cop” and which is now filming in St-Cesaire, in rural Quebec.

French isn’t a foreign language to Vaugier, whose parents are from France and who brought her up in the language even though they were living in Vancouver.

“I live in Los Angeles so I don’t really maintain it that well other than when I speak to my parents or come to Montreal,” she said. “A nice perk of coming here is I try to speak as much French as I can and can pick it up again.”
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Quebec singer Robert Charlebois, veteran actor Colm Feore and “Dan For Mayor” star Fred Ewanuick are part of a sprawling ensemble cast shooting a bilingual comedy about Canada’s French-English divide this summer.

“Bon Cop Bad Cop” producer Kevin Tierney makes his directorial debut with “French Immersion,” about a group of five English-speakers — one each from Alberta, Saskatchewan, Newfoundland, Ontario and New York — who converge on a small Quebec town to learn French.

“The Trotsky” director Jacob Tierney joins a cast also including “Love and Savagery”‘s Martha Burns, “This Hour Has 22 Minutes” comic Gavin Crawford, “Two and a Half Men”‘s Emmanuelle Vaugier, and “Polytechnique” lead Karine Vanasse.
Charlebois plays a senator who uses his influence to help the French-language school run by his daughter while Vanasse plays a teacher with a heart of gold.
Publicists say shooting takes place over the next six weeks in Saint-Cesaire, Que., about 60 kilometres east of Montreal.

The film is set for release on Canada Day, 2011.

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