{"id":553253,"date":"2026-03-30T00:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T00:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/553253\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T00:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T00:25:08","slug":"chris-pratt-altered-marios-mamma-mia-catchphrase-for-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/553253\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Pratt Altered Mario&#8217;s &#8220;Mamma Mia&#8221; Catchphrase For Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/chris-pratt\/\" id=\"auto-tag_chris-pratt\" data-tag=\"chris-pratt\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Pratt<\/a> is reprising his Brooklynite version of Mario, which means his signature saying had to undergo an update.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Super Mario Galaxy Movie star recently explained why he altered the titular plumber\u2019s catchphrase \u201cmamma mia\u201d in the Universal Pictures sequel, which premieres April 1 in theaters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cI\u2019m not going to say it right now because I haven\u2019t done all my vocal warmups,\u201d he prefaced, telling ScreenRant about his most common line. \u201cI don\u2019t want to do it, but it\u2019s \u2018Mamma Mia.\u2019 It\u2019s \u2018Mamma Mia.\u2019 And when you hear that original version of the character, it\u2019s in Italian. It\u2019s like, [high pitched] \u2018Mamma Mia.\u2019 And I\u2019m like, \u2018Why does it make sense for a guy who\u2019s from Brooklyn who doesn\u2019t have that accent to use that so much?&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tPratt continued, \u201cSo it was always tough. They\u2019re like, \u2018It\u2019s written as \u201cMamma Mia.\u201d\u2018 But I\u2019m like, if I\u2019m expressing some reverence or some sense of, \u2018Oh wow, Mamma Mia.\u2019 But that\u2019s not something necessarily a person says unless they\u2019re doing the Italian accent. So it\u2019s always really hard to find how \u2018Mamma Mia\u2019 works.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe actor noted he\u2019s \u201calways tried to vary\u201d the line delivery, adding, \u201cI think that\u2019s maybe why they slowed it down to take some of the stink off it because I\u2019m not sure I ever fully got it right, but it\u2019s like, \u2018Maaammaaa Miaaaa.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/the-super-mario-galaxy-movie\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-super-mario-galaxy-movie\" data-tag=\"the-super-mario-galaxy-movie\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Super Mario Galaxy Movie<\/a>, Pratt stars alongside Anya Taylor-Joy as Princess Peach, Charlie Day as Luigi, Donald Glover as Yoshi, Keegan-Michael Key as Toad, Brie Larson as Princess Rosalina, Issa Rae as Honey Queen, Glen Powell as Fox McCloud, Benny Safdie as Bowser Jr. and Luis Guzm\u00e1n as Wart in the Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic-helmed sequel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chris Pratt is reprising his Brooklynite version of Mario, which means his signature saying had to undergo an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[14362,88,206,149222],"class_list":{"0":"post-553253","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-chris-pratt","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-the-super-mario-galaxy-movie"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}