Beatrice Picard says goodbye to Marge Simpson

Homer! For the majority of Quebecers, Marge Simpson is who she is. More than a raspy voice: the tones, the tone, the frequencies—”Mmmmmm”—the mixture of power and passion for her silly husband and three children. After 33 seasons of giving life to the small screen’s most famous mom, Beatrice Picard is bowing out.

“It’s time for me to leave the role before the role leaves me,” the actress says in an interview Journalism It has just completed dubbing the final episode of the next season. She gave him a bouquet of flowers at DeVos Studio to mark the occasion.

“I’ll be 94, confirms the Dean of Quebec Distribution. I think I’m a little too old to do Marge. The paterfamilias with the amazing blue cake, frozen in time, hasn’t reached her forties, according to the various clues left in Matt Groening’s series, which Episode 34 of it is broadcast by Fox.^e season in the United States.

Beatrice Picard has lent her vocal chords to Marjorie Jacqueline Simpson since the start of the Springfield spoof in 1989.

By comparison, her American counterpart, actress Julie Kavner, is 72, while French actress Véronique Augereau is in her mid-60s.

The Quebec actress is not swayed by nostalgia, and maintains that Bouvier-born Marge Simpson will be “as personal as any” in her long career. However, it is clear, especially from reading the comments posted on social media on Wednesday, that his interpreter will not be “a voice like any other” for an entire generation of followers of the yellow-skinned family, in the form of the laughter he elicits.

“Today, a page, or even a chapter, has been turned from the history of Quebec dubbing,” wrote Guy-Antoine St-Cyr, author of humor and “ultimate fan” of The Simpsons, on Facebook, for example.

Let’s insist a little: Doesn’t Mother Simpson have some points in common with those who have lent their voice for more than 30 years? “She is a woman who has a lot of influence over the rest of the family because she is the main organizer, and she ends up letting Beatrice Picard go. Maybe it’s the little side that looks like me.”

different context

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Beatriz Picard admits she has lost a little bit of fun in her work as a voice actress, which was once “a lot of fun”. “It just got a little more complicated. Before, we worked as a team, which I really loved, whereas now, we’re all alone in the studio saying our lines.”

You must remember that the Quebec team Simpsons Some veterans have gone missing in recent years. Hubert Gagnon, who played Homer for 27 years, retired in 2017. He died three years later of cancer.

Meanwhile, the distasteful Mr. Burns had to reintroduce himself after Edgar Froutier was sued from 1989 to 2019 for indecent assault of a minor. Convicted in July 2020.

Without the drama, however, Marc Labrech passed the torch of Krusty the Clown to Gilbert Lachance in 2007.

Nostalgic Beatrice Picard reassures: Marge Simpson’s future is in good hands. “The person who will replace me is wrong,” she said. You won’t even notice the difference. It works very well. »

Milhouse’s interpreter, actress Chantal Barel, was hired to replace Beatrice Picard.

The 93-year-old actress is working on new projects. “It’s my retirement from Marge, but not from Béatrice,” asserts the one who, like Marjorie Bouvier’s character, compounds her insults over time.