Anyone who has watched The Simpsons in Mexico knows that the casting for the voices (unlike in other dubbed U.S. programs) is quite good. But apparently the production company responsible for casting the new Simpsons movie isn’t of the same opinion, as they’ve jilted the original Mexican voice actors and picked up new ones for the Mexican version of the film (which, incidentally, is the version that will run throughout Latin America). Now the actors are calling for a boycott of the movie:

Gabriel Chavez, the voice of Homer Simpson’s boss Mr. Burns, told the Mexican newspaper El Universal that his union’s voice-over actors were told they could work on “The Simpsons Movie” — to be released worldwide this summer — as a condition to the end of their strike in 2005.

“Gentlemen keep their word,” Chavez told the newspaper.

He said that if Mexico’s National Actors Association is not allowed to dub the film into Spanish, “there will be a boycott across Latin America of the film.”

You might remember ANDA, the National Actors Association, wielding quite a bit of weight back during the Tiziano Ferro incident. Let’s see if their pressure will be enough to save these guys’ jobs. Personally I hate it when voices are changed on cartoons, so I don’t see they would recast at this point.

Via / Yahoo! News – AP