Nancy Cartwright was asked to make an announcement using her Bart Simpson voice during a flight to London after being recognised by cabin crew.
Nancy Cartwright was asked to make an announcement using her Bart Simpson voice during a flight.
The 68-year-old actress is best known for voicing the 10-year-old animated schoolboy from The Simpsons and she recalled being recognised by flight crew on board a plane and was asked to use her skills to help keep passengers informed.
During an appearance on Nancy’s Simpsons Declassified podcast, Joe Mantegna – who voiced Fat Tony – asked the host “the most ridiculous place” someone had asked her to do the Bart voice and she told how a flight attendant had spotted her on board.
She said: “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.’
“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?’ “
Nancy told the staff member she would be “glad to do that.”
She continued: “So we go up, and I’m like shaking their hand.
“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.’ ”
Meanwhile, Nancy recently addressed fears about being replaced by AI and insisted she doesn’t think the technology has enough “heart” to do so properly.
She told People magazine: “I think I would choose a successor [instead of AI], and I’ll tell you why — because AI has no heart and I think that’s a missing ingredient.
“[AI] might sound pretty close to Nancy Cartwright, but I got passion.
“We’re spiritual beings, we can emote passion and uplift people and stuff. And I don’t know that a computer can do something like that.”
Nancy was initially supposed to audition for the voice of Bart’s younger sister Lisa Simpson but had a change of heart at the last minute.
She said: “I go in and for the voice of Lisa Simpson, who’s the middle child, and I saw it there, and then I saw the picture of Bart — 10-year-old school-hating underachiever and proud of it. And I’m like, ‘Wait a minute, that’s more interesting.’ … So I auditioned and I got it.”
Nancy Cartwright reveals ‘most ridiculous place’ she was asked to do Bart Simpson voice
