Springfield’s Famous Yellow Family: Bart Simpson, Homer Simpson, Lisa Simpson, Marge Simpson and Maggie Simpson visiting the Empire State in 2018 (Photo: Noam Galai/Getty Images)
Yes Marina Huerta hung up To play Six Degrees of Separation, her acting path would include Winona Ryder, Uma Thurman, Kim Basinger, Jennifer Aniston, Susan Sarandon and Helen Hunt Films and series dubbed in Spanish was responsible for translating them for the Latino audience.
She knows exactly what tone to use for things like Sharon Stone’s spoken sensuality, Sandra Bullock’s gossip, or Charlize Theron’s elegance. But throughout his stellar career, the unmistakable “Oh, wow!” can be heard. conquers all
orchard was the voice behind the restless “Bart Simpson”one of cartoonist Matt Groening’s sons, a role he landed thanks to frustrating exhaustion and an honest insult.
He got his first job as a voice actor in 1985, three years after his stage debut. She immersed herself in the world of voice when two colleagues invited her to a voice acting class at Sonomex, one of the pioneer companies in the medium. After training four hours a day every Saturday for two months, he decided it was his calling.
“The directors Carlos Magaña and Maynardo Zavala saw something in me and started giving me work. The characters’ engagement grew and the stars came. In the beginning they usually give you what you call ‘atmospheres’, murmurs, protests, “Whispers in scenes in churches, in parks, giggles in a cafeteria, roles that require a lot of people,” Huerta said in an interview with El Clarín .
As he continued to train and win more roles (several children’s voices), Matt Groening was already in talks with director James L. Brooks about creating an animation project that would eventually become the popular series The Simpsons, which has aired on Fox since 1989 becomes.
Two years later and after the success that this peculiar yellow family meant, its creators decided to present it in other areas such as Latin America and in the native language of these countries, that is Spanish.
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Voice tests were carried out for the dubbing of the series and it was not an easy process for any of the actors, Marina told De Podcast Madre de Nacha Rock.
That is one of the demands of the customers (Groening, Fox and Co.). Whoever brings cartoons to life will not sound like cartoons, but like flesh and blood people. Worse still, most of the actors present were unfamiliar with these new animated versions, whose characters only had four fingers on their hands.
“That part was awful, the drawings… you know we came from Disney, so a beautiful thing, then it was awful to see those beaked things, yellow, all grotesque. They said, ‘What a horrible thing that is,'” he confessed.
Huerta auditioned several times for the role of “Marge Simpson,” but at the time her voice was too youthful to play a 35-year-old woman. He ended up getting the role of “Bart Simpson” in a rather odd way: everything about his voice was perfect except for his laugh, which sounded very childish and cartoonish.
“It didn’t come out and it didn’t come out, so with my cute Disney licensed character, I’m starting to get angry and I suddenly told them, ‘It’s because that shit isn’t coming out!'” and the breakout would have pleased Gröning, if he wanted to print it in the later performance. The details of the laugh faded into the background.
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When I received the character, the biggest challenge was giving him an identity that Latino audiences could relate to, since not much was known about his American demeanor.
“Bart is like a Bronx kid, but in a white setting, so he has these weird tones; in Spanish the way people speak in the Bronx isn’t very fresh and in that context the challenge was to give it that distinctive touch.” “I didn’t make it Yucatecan or Tepito because that wouldn’t go down well in Latin America, but I gave him the disrespectful and blotchy way to speak,” he said.
His decision was accepted across the region and became one of the most popular until a conflict with the dubbing company.
Nearly halfway through the ninth season, the actress resigned over salary issues stemming from the character Tweety and a toy that was slated to be released to promote the first version of Space Jam. Her bosses wanted her to voice the doll without paying her more, which she declined and left the project and 14 others, including The Simpsons.
From one day to the next “Bart” was going silent.
Marina had been out for almost seven seasons by then Voice actors strike (including Humberto Vélez, voice of “Homero Simpson”) in Mexico in 2005against the company Grabaciones y Doblajes Internacionales (GDI) for failing to reach an agreement on his employment contract.
The conflict arose because the Grabaciones y Doblajes company stood by its position of demanding a contract that would allow them to employ non-union actors, while the National Association of Actors (ANDA) Media and Public Relations Commission issued an inflexible Position represented: “exclusivity contract or.” beat”.
Added to this was the sale of the company that did the dubbing and with which Fox no longer wanted to work.
Unaware of these conflicts, Huerta was again called upon from seasons 16 through 31 to return to the Springfield family production.
But after the sale of Fox to Disney, the actress remained on the sidelines without any explanation. “Yeah, it gave me a lot of courage and sadness because you’re like, ‘Hey, I haven’t missed anything professionally, I’ve never abused the material, I’ve never missed delivery dates, with audio quality, at work there’s not a single argument for her not to tell me that anymore.
Behind that decision was allegedly Vélez, who would resent Huerta for making the decision to join The Simpsons when he went on strike. “We agreed on the programs but he’s a good hypocrite and so am I, but he attacked him towards me.”