# @pinknews on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2025-07-18T22:00:48.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** PinkNews (@pinknews) — https://gondola.cc/pinknews

## Caption

If you’ve walked past one poster for the new Smurfs movie, you’ll know that Rihanna – former pop star, current underwear flogger – is Smurfette. But did you know evil wizards Gargamel and Razamel are voiced by a genderqueer actor?

Now, the film is an absolute stink bomb as far as critics are concerned. But the light at the end of the tunnel for any queer fans of these little blue gnomes is that actor J. P. Karliak pumps it full of rainbow energy.

Karliak, who is best known as the voice of non-binary superhero Morph in the animated X-Men ’97 series, lends their voice to the wicked sibling duo of Gargamel and Razamel.

Plus, how they secured the job is a pretty interesting tale. Speaking to Out magazine recently, Karliak said that they were initially drafted in alongside a bunch of other voice actors for a table read, essentially so the team behind Smurfs could work out what the dastardly duo would sound like.

Impressed with Karliak, they called him back, and got him to try voicing a few different, smaller roles.

“The whole time I’m thinking, I love that they love what I’m doing, but they’ll give me something like Smackity Smurf in the back row and I’ll have like two lines,” the actor told the publication.

Then, the team suggested that he could be Razamel, who is – if we’re being real – the less relevant of the two brothers. But as they attempted to record a scene where Razamel and Gargamel speak to each other, they realised they needed to source a placeholder for Gargamel’s voice, which would’ve taken some time.

Instead, Karliak just whipped out their impression of Gargamel, and it left the producers “mind-blown”. Soon, the actor had scored both jobs.

Gargamel has always been a little bit on the fruity side, with the way he wears that ankle-length black cloak, rests his knuckles on his hips, and clutches his hands together. We see you, alphabet king!

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