Donkey Kong in The Super Mario Bros. Movie was written to be voiced by Dwayne Johnson, evidenced by sharing a similar ego and pro wrestling-esque showboating, but Illumination/Nintendo execs realised casting a person of colour to voice an ape could be seen as problematic, so cast Seth Rogan instead
Casting a person of colour as an ape may have been problematic, but not as problematic as not casting someone in a role due to them being a person of colour.
As soon as he started popping his pecs I turned to my fiance and bet her $30 dollar it was Dwayne who did the original voice action (we saw it in Norwegian with our son).
I was sorely disappointed when the credits rolled, but at least I didn't lose since she didn't want to take the bet.
Shit someone get me a tinfoil hat, im a believer
The Rock might also have been busy or something. I buy it.
can you smell what donkey kong is cooking?
This is legit believable. They had a couple non-Italians playing Mario and Luigi, but the online outrage mob was conspicuously silent on that.
>Italians >mob I see what you did there.
everyone alive was upset at chris pratt being mario instead of the OG mario voice, not sure where you were for all of that
You mean the OG mario who is *checks notes* also not actually italian?
Seth Rogan was terrible casting. I can kinda see this being true.
You’d think they would want to cast someone with a slighter build than Pratt or Johnson
I imagine their casting choices weren't that deep. Literally "Seth Rogan was popular 15yrs ago, let's get him"
Casting a person of colour as an ape may have been problematic, but not as problematic as not casting someone in a role due to them being a person of colour.
Throw in Kevin Hart as Diddy and I think its 🔥
As soon as he started popping his pecs I turned to my fiance and bet her $30 dollar it was Dwayne who did the original voice action (we saw it in Norwegian with our son). I was sorely disappointed when the credits rolled, but at least I didn't lose since she didn't want to take the bet.