Cartwright has voiced the character for over 38 years
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- Nancy Cartwright says she often slips into Bart Simpson’s voice even when not recording the show
- She said on a recent podcast that it’s “so easy to do”
- Cartwright originally auditioned for Lisa Simpson in 1987 but decided to try out for Bart at the last minute
Even when she’s not at work recording The Simpsons, Nancy Cartwright says she often still slips into voicing Bart Simpson.
Speaking on a recent episode of Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum, Cartwright, 68, was asked, of voicing the iconic character while not recording the show: “I mean, do you ever catch yourself doing it and go, ‘Oh my god, stop it.” Do you ever do that to yourself?”
“Well, sometimes I can’t resist, and I do have to kind of throw him in there. It’s so easy to do,” Cartwright responded.
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During a recent episode of her podcast, Simpsons Declassified, Cartwright was asked by Joe Mantegna, who voiced the Simpsons character Fat Tony, about “the most ridiculous place” that someone has asked her to do the Bart voice.
Cartwright explained that she was once on a flight to London when a flight attendant recognized her.
“She was like, ‘Sorry to interrupt you, Ms.Cartwright, but just wondering, are you the voice of Bart Simpson?’ I’m like, ‘Yes, I am,’ ” the actress recounted. “She goes, ‘Okay, both of our pilots are huge, huge fans, would there be any way if we could get you to come up into the cockpit and announce that we’re leading in Heathrow?’ ”
Cartwright said she then told the flight attendant that she would be “glad to do that.”
“So we go up, and I’m like shaking their hand,” she continued. “They handed me the microphone, and I said something like [in the voice of Bart Simpson] ‘Ladies and gentlemen, this is Bart Simpson speaking. I’m the copilot here, and I just wanted to let you know we will be landing in Japan in about 15 minutes, so buckle your seatbelts.’ ”
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Cartwright has been voicing Bart Simpson for more than 38 years. She has revealed that she initially was meant to audition for the voice of Lisa, Bart’s sister, when she first tried out for the series in 1987 (at the time it was just intended to run as a weekly short on the Tracey Ullman Show). She decided to try out for Bart at the last minute, and the rest is history.
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