Chris Pratt’s Mario voice was doomed before anyone had even heard it
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/oct/07/chris-pratts-mario-voice-was-doomed-before-anyone-had-even-heard-it
We were promised a voice ‘unlike anything you’ve heard in the Mario world before’. In The Super Mario Bros film, we got Pratt doing Paulie Walnuts instead
There are certain seminal roles of stage and screen that all actors crave to play in their lifetimes. King Lear. John Proctor. Lady Macbeth. Willy Loman. Hannibal Lecter. And of course, Mario.