The Nintendo Power Podcast released a new episode this week in celebration of E3 2019, discussing all of the surprises Nintendo announced in their exciting Direct presentation.
Nintendo of America President Doug Bowser was a guest on the show, and discussed his experience filming his conversation with an animated Bowser in the Nintendo Direct. The conversation begins at the 2:27 mark.
“That was a lot of fun,” says Bowser. “Just a little inside story, as we were filming that, obviously we didn’t have a CG Bowser in the room — we had someone in a blue suit with a big pole coming out of the top of his head and a piece of tape really high up, and those were meant to be Bowser’s eyes.
“And so, as we were obviously engaging with that particular person, we were supposed to be looking up at the eyes. I can’t tell you how many takes we had to do because I kept staring at the actual eyes of the actor instead of way up to Bowser’s eyes. I basically kept talking to Bowser’s chest.”
Also featured in the episode are Kit Ellis from Nintendo Minute and Pete Hines from Bethesda Softworks.
Interestingly, if you watch the Japanese version of the Nintendo Direct, you can see that Nintendo added extra subtitles to add some context and explain the joke clearly to Japanese audiences. See for yourself at the 5:10 mark!
