After negotiations that led nowhere, John DiMaggio agreed to reprise Bender for the upcoming season of Futurama.
When it was introduced final yr that Futurama can be returning after a 10-year hiatus for one more season courtesy of Hulu, there was a bit one thing lacking. Because it appeared, John DiMaggio wouldn’t be returning to voice Bender, one of the vital and beloved characters on Futurama, because the performer had instructed the studio to chunk his shiny metallic ass — nicely, in phrases a bit extra acceptable for a human being. Fortunately, issues labored out, with the bonus of DiMaggio making an impression alongside the way in which.
In line with John DiMaggio, his determination to reprise Bender for the upcoming season of Futurama was a troublesome one on account of negotiations associated to cash, telling Selection, “Once they made the announcement, it wasn’t like I had stated no. We had been negotiating for a very long time…It was a stalemate.” He added, “I didn’t need, nor did my agent need, me standing exterior of a home that I ought to have been having Thanksgiving dinner in…It was identical to, OK, I gotta say sure, as a result of I don’t need the demise of the present on my shoulders.’ They had been prepared to herald different folks. It was what it was.”
Although the studio wasn’t precisely screaming, “Shut up and take my cash!”, DiMaggio noticed the significance of his participation and finally determined to signal on as robotic Bender, with Futurama set to return on July twenty fourth.
The actor’s stance on the matter instantly calls to thoughts the present SAG-AFTRA strike, one thing John DiMaggio is nicely conscious of. “It’s type of attention-grabbing that the strike is going on, as a result of it’s all of the stuff that I needed and was preventing for — not solely myself, however everyone else…Now it’s not simply me versus them. Now it’s everyone versus them.”
The upcoming eighth season — generally known as the eleventh — isn’t the primary time Futurama has been revived, with Comedy Central selecting it up for a fifth season comprised of 4 motion pictures chopped into 16 episodes. To this point, the present has gained two Primetime Emmy Awards for Excellent Animated Program.
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