Elizabeth Knutson🎙️🦖⚢ | Voice Actor

Glen Powell and Donald Glover made personal phone calls to the animation studio behind #TheSuperMarioGalaxyMovie asking to voice Fox McCloud and Yoshi. “When we were working on the first movie, we began to get phone calls from actors. They started communicating their enthusiasm. After the first movie was done, there were two phone calls that came from actors expressing incredible conviction and passion about being involved with Nintendo, and one of them was from Glen Powell," says Illumination boss Chris Meledandri. "He explained that we had to understand how deeply he loved the character of Fox McCloud. His dream was one day to be part of a ‘Star Fox’ movie... The other actor who called after seeing the first movie was Donald Glover, and he was like, ‘I need to be involved, if there’s any way with a Nintendo movie.’ He came in, and we sat down, and he said, ‘I will do the most incredible Yoshi’. So it was really interesting that these two casting ideas came from the actors themselves.” (via Forbes) variety.com/2026/film/news…