Martinet originally was not invited to audition for the role of Mario he crashed the auditions, and was asked to do an Italian accent.
Martinet has also stated that he kept on talking with his Mario voice until the audition tape ran out. He says that Petruchio from William Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew was an inspiration for his portrayal of Mario. He then thought to himself that it would be too harsh for the kids to hear, so he made it more friendly and more of an Italian-American, resulting in what Mario's voice is today. The directors let him audition and told him, "You're an Italian plumber from Brooklyn".Īt first Martinet planned to talk like a stereotypical Italian American with a deep voice (which is how Mario sounded in the Super Mario Bros. Charles Martinet walked in and asked, "Can I please read for this?". He went to the audition at the last minute as the casting directors were already putting away their equipment. Martinet earned the job when, one day, he was told by his friend that there was going to be an audition at a trade show in which you "talk to people as a plumber". This digital puppetry, with Martinet's comic performance, was a novelty at the time.
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Working for Nintendo since 1990, Martinet started voicing Mario at video game trade shows in which attendees would walk up to a TV screen displaying a 3-D Mario head that moved around the screen and talked. This system was called Mario in Real-Time or MIRT and was developed by Pasadena based SimGraphics. Martinet could see the attendees by means of a hidden camera setup, and a facial motion capture rig recorded his mouth movements in order to synchronize Martinet's mouth movement with the on-screen Mario mouth movement. He is better known for voicing Mario, Luigi, Wario, Waluigi and Baby Mario/Luigi for Super Mario. 17, 1955 in San Jose, CA as Charles André Martinet) is the signature voice of the logo from 1994-1999 and is the voice of the slug, Sly.
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