#the fact that they hired Elba and O' Shaughnessy for the sonic movie was a surprising breath of fresh air

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FYI: I have a degree in digital media and audio production and some of you need to know what ADR is.

Automated dialogue replacement

It means that most and/or everything you hear in professionally produced films is dubbed over with voice acting.

Boom Mics are used to record things said during filming so that the actors can (sometimes months to a year later and/or after the actors have had training on certain accents) record the same lines they performed in the scene based on the script they are given. This is done in a recording booth and with the same methods as voice acting in video games/anime/and animated movies.

I'm not saying that Chris Pratt should have voiced Mario, good god I wish we could remove him from Hollywood for good, but I do promise that he has done voice acting. All the face actors have. All those 'ha's and 'ack's are done in a booth. Every scene has approximately 0 of the original recorded audio while filming playing in the final release. Even sex scenes. Each actor has to then make all those sounds again in a booth later.

Most voice actors were also filmed actors or still are. Travis Willingham is a prof voice actor but he was also in the film Secondhand Lions with Robert Duval. Talasin Jaffe was in HOUSE MD and Mr. Mom.

And Kung Fu Panda is a good example of wildly talented hollywood actors doing voice acting and absolutely nailing it. All of them gave a performance that couldn't be replicated to the same level, and I know, I watched Kung Fu Panda: The Legends Of Awesomeness, in its entirety.

The problem is not that famous Hollywood actors can't do voice acting correctly, many do it very well(Idris Elba), it's that the studios are more interested in getting a Hollywood name to voice Mario, and not Charles Martinet. Because Travis Willingham or Colleen O'Shaughnessey don't have their faces on cereal boxes or toys with their likeness being sold to children.

This isn't (usually*) a talent problem, it's an extention of the situation when Disney screwed over Robin Williams. It's about companies not caring who actually does the best job, but whose name they can flash on the screen biggest.

*Benedict Cumberbatch definitely had months to perfect his Dr Strange accent so he has no excuse at all.

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