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Kaan Serin

Super Mario is "who I want to be as a man," says legendary voice actor Charles Martinet: "Kind, passionate, always optimistic"

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Charles Martinet, the man who voiced all of Super Mario's wahoos and let's-a-go and it's-a-me quips for well over three decades, says the red-hatted plumber is who he aspires to be as a person.

Not in the sense that he wants to become a mushroom-eating Italian/Japanese plumber who dabbles as a doctor, acrobat, golfer, and general multi-threat, that is, but the iconic voice actor thinks the world could always use some more of Mario's best qualities.

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