casinoblaze:

the chris pratt thing makes me so mad cause of how voice actors get treated.

charles martinet came up with the mario voice himself in a last minute audition and became the canon mario voice after doing a little booth thing to promote mario 64 at E3, where fans asked mario questions while motion censors captured his face movements on a 3d model. he even created luigi’s voice and personality on a whim, making him more anxious to explain why he wouldn’t come on screen with his brother and giving him that specific voice so his facial movements wouldn’t appear on the mario model and break the realism. then he added even more little details into luigi’s personality based on himself, like him whistling when he’s nervous and relying a lot on his older brother.

he has been there to make this character fun and interesting and lively. but decades of work and effort doesn’t mean shit when bigger names will pull in views, even when the stars don’t care about the role they’re playing