Anya Taylor-Joy went on Late Night with Seth Meyers on March 19 to promote The Super Mario Bros Movie and ended up talking about throwing up. That’s the story.
Voice Acting Put Her Through It
“It’s super fun. But I will say the first time I ever did a session, I did not realize how taxing it would be because you’re yelling continuously the whole time. I think the first time I ever did it, I threw up. I’m pretty sure, like, I drank so much water, and I was like, ‘Gotta do it,'” Taylor-Joy told Meyers.
She also got into the “efforts” part of voice recording, which is where it gets weirder. Efforts are the grunts, gasps, and action sounds recorded at the very end of a session.
Taylor-Joy explained it as “essentially like the action sequence, but you’re doing it standing by yourself in a booth.” She did a karate-hopping motion to demonstrate.
Then she added, “I think you have to lightly dissociate. And then, you know, you kind of visit yourself back, and you think, ‘God, I hope no one ever sees this,’ because they do film them.“
Chris Pratt swears by vocal warm-ups. Jack Black and Keegan-Michael Key said they drank tea the whole time. Nobody mentioned throwing up before Taylor-Joy.
She’s back as Peach in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, out April 1, 2026. The first film made $1.3 billion worldwide in 2023 and basically proved animated video game adaptations could actually work at the box office.
The sequel has the full cast back: Chris Pratt as Mario, Charlie Day as Luigi, Jack Black as Bowser, and Keegan-Michael Key as Toad. Brie Larson and Benny Safdie are new, voicing Princess Rosalina and Bowser Jr. Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic are directing again.
Jack Black already teased “tons of Easter eggs” for fans of the games. Taylor-Joy said Peach is on a self-discovery arc this time around, leaving the Mushroom Kingdom. “She’s still deeply empathetic, but she’s also taking care of what she needs in this moment,” she said on the Today Show.
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie hits theaters on April 1, 2026.
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