Last week, Nintendo and Illumination revealed the main voice cast for their upcoming Super Mario Bros. animated movie. The cast is led by Chris Pratt as the voice of Mario and Charlie Day as the voice of Luigi. I, for one am not a huge fan of the casting as I felt the cast was missing a level of diversity. It looks as though I am not the only one as John Leguizamo, who played Luigi in the 1993 live-action adaptation, responded to the announcement with some praise but also some criticism about the lack of diversity featured in the main voice cast.
Leguizamo took to his Twitter page to express that he was thrilled that the franchise was getting another shot at the big screen treatment but he wasn’t particularly thrilled with the casting choices.
“So glad [Super Mario Bros.] is getting a reboot! Obviously it’s iconic enuff. But too bad they went all-white! No Latinx in the leads! Groundbreaking color-blind casting in original! Plus I’m the only one who knows how to make this movie work script wise.”
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