

This led to Martinet getting a callback, and the rest is history. I want to voice Mario until I drop dead, Martinet said in 2021. While initially, Charles thought he had bombed the audition, the lead designer behind Mario, Shigeru Miyamoto, knew they found their Mario. Longtime Mario voice actor Charles Martinet will no longer voice the beloved plumber. He is best known as being the voice of Mario in the Mario series of video games since 1995.1 He also voices Luigi, Wario, Waluigi, Toadsworth, Baby Mario, Baby Luigi, and others. Caught off guard when he heard “Action” instead of speaking from the script, he started listing pizza, pasta, and every Italian dish he could name until the tape ran out. Charles Andre Martinet (born September 17, 1955) is an American actor and voice actor. Understandably, Martinet did not know much about video games at the time, and while he had planned initially on a raspy Italian American voice, he decided to go with the far more cheerful and youthful version of a Brooklyn accent instead. The directors agreed, giving him the prompt ‘‘you are an Italian plumber from Brooklyn named Mario” for a video game company named Nintendo.

Apparently, he was asked by a friend to ‘‘crash an audition in Las Vegas.’’ Martinet walked in as the casting directors were packing things up, and asked if he could read from the script. 'I want to voice Mario until I drop dead,' in response to a fans question, according to gaming blog The Game Crater.
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Have you seen The Super Mario Bros Movie trailer yet One character that we. How Charles Martinet became the iconic voice is something of a funny story. Actor Charles Martinet, the voice of Nintendo Co.s Mario. 'I love Charles Martinet so much that now we insist on being next to each other at all conventions,' Strong added.
