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...some thinks it's not right and that can apply too when a White guy is playing a White role:

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Italians, Gamers, and Jokesters Unite Against Chris Pratt’s Casting in Super Mario Bros.
Pratt will reportedly voice Mario in an upcoming animated film alongside Charlie Day’s Luigi and Anya Taylor-Joy’s Princess Peach, to the (embellished) horror of several very vocal critics.


ome have already declared it game over for the Super Mario Bros. movie. An animated film based on the classic Nintendo game was announced on Thursday, receiving swift backlash for casting non-Italian Chris Pratt as Mario. Pratt confirmed his casting on Instagram, even pulling out a celebratory “It’s-a me, Mario!” The actor then clarified that he doesn’t plan on using that accent in the movie, but he’s “working hard on it.”

Joining Pratt in Super Mario Bros. is Charlie Day as Mario’s brother Luigi, Anya Taylor-Joy as Princess Peach, Jack Black as Bowser, Keegan-Michael Key as Toad, Seth Rogen as Donkey Kong, Fred Armisen as Cranky Kong, Sebastian Maniscalco as Spike, and Kevin Michael Richardson as Kamek. (Luckily, Elon Musk and Grimes have decided to hang up their Mario cosplay after SNL.)

Since the casting was unveiled, Italian-Americans and their allies have wasted no time expressing their displeasure with Pratt playing Mario—mostly facetiously, though some people do seem earnestly against the idea. The Sopranos and Goodfellas memes reigned on Twitter as people poked fun at the possibilities of Pratt’s accent and rallied for alternate casting, though not many pointed out that Mario is a creation of Japanese game designer Shigeru Miyamoto—also famously not Italian.




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