“Oddly that’s the more grueling thing that you do,” he said. But he “was trying to get as much Brooklyn as I can.”ĭay also explained the process behind many of the movie’s action sounds, which like the video game include grunts, yells and exclamations as the characters run around the Mushroom Kingdom.

He also acknowledged some of the negative reaction online over Pratt’s casting after the initial trailer revealed the actor’s voice, saying, “It was hard for us to sit back and everybody’s like ‘Uhh’ and we’re like, ‘You just have to wait.’ Five minutes into the movie you’re in it and you’re not even like, ‘Oh it’s Chris Pratt.’ It’s Mario and you’re on this journey with him.”Ĭharlie Day, who voices Luigi, admitted he “didn’t really think about how iconic the character was until after we completed all of the sessions.” And rather than the Italian accent, he teased, “My guy might slip into a little Rhode Island here and there,” nodding to where Day grew up. We grew up with the Super Show! and the movie where part of it is they’re from Brooklyn, so it just felt like a natural course for us to take.” Horvath addressed the decision to not give Mario the Italian accent that he’s typically had in the games, explaining, “Our feeling was you wouldn’t believe that he was a real character doing that accent for the entirety of the film.

“He’s funny, he’s down-to-earth and he’s also superheroic, so he really checked all of the boxes for us.” He’s a plumber, he goes to a magic world and becomes this great hero, and Chris Pratt plays that character so well,” director Aaron Horvath said of casting the star in the lead role. “We wanted to make sure that Mario felt like a real character in this movie, that he’s a real guy with a real family, really flesh him out. The two are separated and Mario sets off to find Luigi, alongside classic characters Princess Peach (Anya Taylor-Joy), Bowser (Jack Black), Donkey Kong (Seth Rogen) and Toad (Keegan-Michael Key). The Universal film, based off of the famous Nintendo games, follows brothers Mario and Luigi, plumbers from Brooklyn who are transported down a mysterious pipe and into a magical new world. I think the movie is fantastic and I think your childhood is firmly intact.” So the pressure was on to not do that and, thankfully, we didn’t. Just because something has reach doesn’t mean it’s going to be a good movie and there’s instances of people making bad movies and ruining people’s childhoods.

I was like, ‘How are you going to make a movie about Legos? What is that?’ And then Chris and Phil made this incredible movie, I was part of it, I loved it,” he continued. How Ken Jeong Prepped to Play Publicist in Charlie Day's 'Fool's Paradise'

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