Donald Glover Weighs in on “Super Mario Bros.” Debate: Does Yoshi Have 1 Eye or 2?
Donald Glover Weighs in on “Super Mario Bros.” Debate: Does Yoshi Have 1 Eye or 2?
Tommy McArdleFri, April 3, 2026 at 3:22 PM UTC
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Donald Glover on March 28, 2026 (left); Yoshi in The Super Mario Galaxy MovieCredit: Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty; Nintendo and Illumination -
Donald Glover, Chris Pratt and Charlie Day debated whether the Super Mario character Yoshi has one or two eyes in an interview as The Super Mario Galaxy Movie opens in theaters
Glover voices the fan-favorite green dinosaur — who may or may not have two eyes — in the new movie, a sequel to 2023's The Super Mario Bros. Movie
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is in theaters now
Donald Glover and his The Super Mario Galaxy Movie costars are answering an important question: does Yoshi have two eyes or one eye?
Glover, who voices Yoshi in the new movie, and his costars Chris Pratt and Charlie Day appeared on the video game-themed podcast Get Played on Wednesday, April 1, where they discussed the sequel to 2023’s The Super Mario Bros. Movie and dove into the green dinosaur's biology at comedian and co-host Heather Anne Campbell's behest. "This is one of the great character design questions of all time," Glover, 42, responded. "Are these eyeballs touching or are they one big [eyeball]? I think they're touching. I think it's like a butt, you know?"
"It's kind of gross, but I think it just works that way. I don't know," he added.
"It has to be two eyes," Pratt, who voices the movie's lead character Mario, said. "It has to be. I think just evolutionarily, anything with just one eye would be eaten. You have to have two eyes."
Campbell, 47, responded to Pratt, 46, and Glover's answers with another query. "Do you think the shell on his back is his saddle or is it part of his body?" she asked. "Is the shell the dinosaur part, or is that what somebody rides on?"
Yoshi in The Super Mario Galaxy MovieCredit: Nintendo and Illumination
"Does he poop, and if it does, does it come in an egg, or..." Glover additionally wondered, while Pratt asked aloud whether "the shell is just something that's put on Yoshi?"
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"'Cause he's a dinosaur, right? They don't have turtle shells typically, but maybe — " Glover said, though Day (who voices Luigi) noted, "We don't know for a fact that [dinosaurs] didn't have shells."
"They dropped feathers on us way late in the game," Day, 50, added. "Too many featherless movies to all of a sudden say the T-rex is covered in feathers."
"I love how everybody was like 'Nah, we sticking with these featherless ones,' " Glover joked.
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Yoshi, Mario and Luigi in The Super Mario Galaxy MovieCredit: Nintendo and Illumination
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie continues Nintendo and Illumination's adaptation of the Super Mario video games by sending Mario into space almost three years after the first movie dominated the box office and had the top opening of all time for an animated film with $377 million in worldwide ticket sales. Returning cast members from the first movie include Anya Taylor-Joy as Princess Peach, Jack Black as Bowser and Keegan-Michael Key as Toad.
On top of Glover's addition to the cast as Yoshi, Benny Safdie voices Bowser Jr., Issa Rae as the Honey Queen, Luis Guzmán as Wart, Kevin Michael Richardson as Kamek, Brie Larson as Princess Rosalina and Glen Powell as Fox McCloud, who is best known from the Star Fox and Super Smash Bros. video games.The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is in theaters now.
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