#*enters a discord server that hasnt been used in 6 months* hey guys how do you feel about the mario casting

[buoyantsaturn]

wait cj you’re going into voice acting, how do you feel abt the mario movie and the complete disregard for casting actual voice acting talent in favor of just picking famous actors in an attempt 2 draw attention, who frankly r going to SUCK. ur like, the person allowed to be the most annoyed

oh yeah lmao im super pissed. like there are incredibly talented people out there in the video game industry, movies and tv, and even COMMERCIALS now who are getting passed up every day just bc the company can have some well-known face in the role just to get people in seats in the theater. its. disgusting tbh and also like how do you think those people GOT their faces known??? like maybe if you hired actors based on talent and also the VOICE YOU WERE LOOKING FOR...... then acting wouldn't be such a competitive field. its one thing when youre filming a live action movie and its like "yeah i want this very specific face and body type for this role" like ive done theatre ive written roles where i was like i don't care who auditions i know that this is the LOOK of the person i want to have and thats like. not cool of me but i was 15 u know. but when its VOICE ACTING. literally first of all everyone knows what mario sounds like. unless you put crisp rat through the chipmunks treatment thats not gonna work. voice actors who are trained and Know What They're Doing can produce The Exact Voice that the director wants. whereas when it's just crisp rat being crisp rat. what you're getting here is not mario that is crisp rat.

anyway if anyone ever needs voice actors for stuff hit up your local college students or recent grads (me and my friends) because we're all losers who play video games and spend our free time imitating video game character voices for fun. no dude without any kind of proper acting training that just happened to get lucky in hollywood is ever going to be able to give you what you want when it comes to voice acting <3