Chris Pratt’s Mario voice has been a hot topic since the first trailer for The Super Mario Bros. Movie debuted. In a recent Entertainment Weekly interview, Pratt revealed that one of his first attempts at the Mario voice got rejected by the film’s directors, Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic, because it resembled Tony Soprano, the mob boss played by James Gandolfini in HBO’s The Sopranos.
“We tried different things, different voices,” Day added. “Every now and then they would say, ‘Charlie, maybe a little less Goodfellas in this one.’ I’m like, ‘Alright! I think you’re wrong, but fine!’… until they landed on something they liked.”