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{{~~quote2~~|The worst thing I ever did? Super Mario Brothers. It was a fuckin' nightmare. The whole experience was a nightmare. It had a husband-and-wife team directing, whose arrogance had been mistaken for talent. After so many weeks their own agent told them to get off the set! Fuckin' nightmare. Fuckin' idiots.|Bob Hoskins|[http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2007/aug/03/2 "The Guardian" interview]}}

{{quote|The worst thing I ever did? Super Mario Brothers. It was a fuckin' nightmare. The whole experience was a nightmare. It had a husband-and-wife team directing, whose arrogance had been mistaken for talent. After so many weeks their own agent told them to get off the set! Fuckin' nightmare. Fuckin' idiots.|Bob Hoskins|[http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2007/aug/03/2 "The Guardian" interview]}}

'''{{wp|Bob Hoskins|Robert William "Bob" Hoskins, Jr.}}''' (October 26, 1942–April 29, 2014) was an Academy Award-nominated English actor born in {{wp|Bury St Edmunds|Bury St. Edmunds}}, {{wp|Suffolk}}. Hoskins is best known for playing the character of {{wp|Eddie Valiant}} in the 1988 {{wp|The Walt Disney Company|Disney}} film ''{{wp|Who Framed Roger Rabbit}}''. Aside from said role, he starred in works like ''{{wp|The Long Good Friday}}'', ''{{wp|Mona Lisa (1986)|Mona Lisa}}'', ''{{wp|Mermaids (1990 film)|Mermaids}}'', and ''{{wp|Pink Floyd – The Wall}}''. He portrayed the live-action version of [[Mario (film character)|Mario]] in the 1993 movie ''[[Super Mario Bros. (film)|Super Mario Bros.]]'' He retired from acting in August 2012 due to Parkinson's Disease (having been diagnosed with the disease in 2011) and died of pneumonia on April 29, 2014, at the age of 71.

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-{{quote2|The worst thing I ever did? Super Mario Brothers. It was a fuckin' nightmare. The whole experience was a nightmare. It had a husband-and-wife team directing, whose arrogance had been mistaken for talent. After so many weeks their own agent told them to get off the set! Fuckin' nightmare. Fuckin' idiots.|Bob Hoskins|[http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2007/aug/03/2 "The Guardian" interview]}}
+{{quote|The worst thing I ever did? Super Mario Brothers. It was a fuckin' nightmare. The whole experience was a nightmare. It had a husband-and-wife team directing, whose arrogance had been mistaken for talent. After so many weeks their own agent told them to get off the set! Fuckin' nightmare. Fuckin' idiots.|Bob Hoskins|[http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2007/aug/03/2 "The Guardian" interview]}}
 '''{{wp|Bob Hoskins|Robert William "Bob" Hoskins, Jr.}}''' (October 26, 1942&ndash;April 29, 2014) was an Academy Award-nominated English actor born in {{wp|Bury St Edmunds|Bury St. Edmunds}}, {{wp|Suffolk}}. Hoskins is best known for playing the character of {{wp|Eddie Valiant}} in the 1988 {{wp|The Walt Disney Company|Disney}} film ''{{wp|Who Framed Roger Rabbit}}''. Aside from said role, he starred in works like ''{{wp|The Long Good Friday}}'', ''{{wp|Mona Lisa (1986)|Mona Lisa}}'', ''{{wp|Mermaids (1990 film)|Mermaids}}'', and ''{{wp|Pink Floyd – The Wall}}''. He portrayed the live-action version of [[Mario (film character)|Mario]] in the 1993 movie ''[[Super Mario Bros. (film)|Super Mario Bros.]]'' He retired from acting in August 2012 due to Parkinson's Disease (having been diagnosed with the disease in 2011) and died of pneumonia on April 29, 2014, at the age of 71.