“For a minute, I walked in and they were like, ‘That’s a little New Jersey.
You’re doing a Tony Soprano thing,'” Pratt recalls in an interview with his cast.
Finding the right voices for Mario and Luigi inThe Super Mario Bros. Moviewasn’t so easy forChris PrattandCharlie Day.
Chris Pratt voices Mario in ‘The Super Mario Bros. Movie’.Image Press Agency/NurPhoto/Shutterstock; Nintendo; Illumination Entertainment & Universal Pictures
“We tried different things, different voices,” Day says.
I think you’re wrong, but fine!’
until they landed on something they liked."
“For a minute, I walked in and they were like, ‘That’s a little New Jersey.
You’re doing a Tony Soprano thing,'” Pratt says of his early feedback.
“It was a really exciting and daunting challenge,” Pratt explains.
“Talking to these guys, they say, ‘You wanna do the Mario movie?’
I think both of us said yes.
Didn’t even ask, ‘What’s the deal?
What’s the story?’
‘Yes, I’m in.’
And then we had to really dig in and figure out, Are they Italian?
and ‘It’s-a me!’
The film is out in theaters this weekend.
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