When Nancy Cartwright speaks, you can hear a tiny trace of Bart Simpson slipping through. And when she laughs, there’s little doubt about it. It’s the same mischievous chuckle as that of everyone’s favourite 10-year-old troublemaker — and right now Cartwright is chuckling heartily. I’ve just asked her if she would teach me how to talk like Bart. It seemed like a skill she might be willing to pass along. “Not only can’t I, but if I could, I wouldn’t,” she says. “Are you crazy? I value my job way too much to go telling all the secrets to you guys up north.” But what if she were run down by a Chrysler like Snowball the cat? Or abducted by aliens, as the Simpsons were in the Hungry are the Damned episode? What would happen to The Simpsons? “It would be cancelled,” she replies. If she goes, so does the show. “I have no doubt about that. They have never found anybody who can do any of the characters that I do. I don’t think I can be replaced. I could, but the public would hate it.” Read More >>>
