Chris Pratt’s 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 insteadGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailThere 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.Charles Martinet, who plays the happy little plumber in the video games, was initially told i