If this movie shook your childhood, don’t read this anecdote that will break your heart!

One thing’s for sure: you won’t be watching Charlie My Hero Academia again after hearing this anecdote, as tragic as it is poignant. Recently recalled Looper.

Charlie, My Hero tells the story of a rogue dog who kills a dog more evil than himself: the bulldog Carcass. In Dog Paradise, after a trick, he manages to return to Earth with only one idea: revenge. But his encounter with little Anna-Marie, a seven-year-old orphan, makes him reevaluate everything.

In the original version, Judith Barce plays the character of the little girl Anna-Marie in the film. But if his career is going well from an early start, the personal life of 10-year-old Baris is very complicated.

Her alcoholic father has constant arguments with her mother, and Judith spends most of her time outside so that she doesn’t find out. But when her father discovered that Judith and her mother were preparing to leave him and escape his influence, he killed them both on July 25, 1988, and then took his own life.

This tragic story happened when Judith finished dubbing for the animated film Charlie, My Hero, but her partner Burt Reynolds, the voice of Charlie, did not finish the voice.

In the final scene, Charlie must return to Heaven after helping Anna-Marie (and vice versa) and say goodbye to the little girl. But the fictional scene’s parallels with the little girl’s recent disappearance are poignant, and Reynolds cries several times, making this farewell scene more to Reynolds’ Judith than to Charlie’s Anne-Marie.

The most poignant sequence, when we hear Reynolds’ stern voice (in French, it’s the quintessential Richard Darbois providing Charlie’s voice):

end credits song Love will surviveDedicated to Judith Barsey.

When it came out, Charlie, My Hero was a modest success (competing with Disney’s The Little Mermaid, which came out the same week in the US), but paid off when it came out on video, allowing many to discover it. . There were two sequels: Charlie 2 in 1996 and Charlie, A Christmas Carol in 1998, and even a series without Don Bluth.

Burt Reynolds never returned to voice Charlie, neither in the series nor in the subsequent films. He died in 2018 at the age of 82. Judith Bars would have turned 46 this year.