Old news but I’m still salty about it, it really shows how shabbily voice actors are treated that they got fucking Chris Pratt to voice Mario in the Illumination Mario movie instead of Charles Martinet; who I would argue is basically to Mario as Mel Blanc is to Bugs Bunny.
And it’s not like he doesn’t have range, because you wanna know another one of his major voice acting roles? Paarthurnax from Skyrim.
Yes, the guy who said the line "What is better - to be born good, or to overcome your evil nature through great effort?" is also the voice of the funny wahoo man.
Everyone give an uproarious round of applause for the Marvelous Mario, the Legendary Luigi, the Wunderbar Wario, and the Weirdo Waluigi himself - Charles Martinet!
Nintendo has announced that Charles Martinet, the original voice of Mario, will step back from recording voices for Mario games and move into the new role of “Mario Ambassador”.
Message from Nintendo:
Charles Martinet has been the original voice of Mario in Nintendo games for a long time, as far back as Super Mario 64. Charles is now moving into the brand-new role of Mario Ambassador. With this transition, he will be stepping back from recording character voices for our games, but he’ll continue to travel the world sharing the joy of Mario and interacting with you all!
It has been an honor working with Charles to help bring Mario to life for so many years and we want to thank and celebrate him. Please keep an eye out for a special video message from Shigeru Miyamoto and Charles himself, which we will post at a future date.
Message from Charles Martinet:
My new Adventure begins! You are all Numba One in my heart! #woohoo !!!!!!!
The worst part about the Super Mario Bros movie trailer is how GOOD it looks
Because at least if it was bad, I wouldn't have been as upset about Chris Pratt being cast as Mario and not even trying with the voice.
Because the movie would have been bad anyway
BUT NO
IT LOOKS AMAZING
AND ALL THE OTHER VOICES SOUND SO GOOD
And the fact that the whole movie is going to be ruined by the fact that Hollywood made such a stupid choice for what should have been an easy decision
Because Charles Martinet has not only voiced Mario for 30 years, he's also done professional non-video-game acting for longer than that. He could have absolutely fit the Mario voice into a speaking role.
But no. He wasn't even asked.
And now we have to live with the thoughts of what might have been.
Charles Martinet is officially retiring from being Mario's voice for the future games... it's the end of an era.
This man give a soul to theses characters, and I'll never be thankful enough. He may not be Mario, Luigi, Wario and Waluigi's voice starting now, but he'll always be in our heart.
Thank you.
Thank you so much for the childhood memories and everything you gave us. I loved to play theses game you voiced. You're a legend.
Yahoo !
...It's weird that it happened on my birthday, when I think about it.