We decided to remember how famous actors appeared in video games. And to make it more interesting for you to read, we decided for the hundredth time not to talk about Norman Reedus in Death Stranding and Arnold Schwarzenegger in MK11. So make some coffee, get comfortable, and get going.
And let's start with a very unusual creation by Remedy, which was released in 2016. We are talking about the action movie Quantum Break, the main character of which was played by Shawn Ashmore. And last year he could be seen in the image of Conrad, one of the characters in The Dark Pictures: Man of Medan.
Ashmore is primarily known to Russian audiences for two roles. Since 2000, the actor has played the role of Iceman in the X-Men franchise: he has four films and one video game to his credit. And most recently, he donned the Lamplighter costume in The Boys, a popular Amazon series.
We couldn't pass by Oscar winner, star of the TV series «Mr. Robot» and hero of the Hackerman meme, actor Rami Malek. The Egyptian-American played the role of Joshua, a good-natured guy and the older brother of two missing girls in the game Until Dawn. In our subjective opinion, it was in this role that Malek was able to demonstrate his acting skills, masterfully playing a man who experienced severe psychological trauma.
The rest of the game's cast isn't that stellar. Among the most famous names to Russian viewers, it is worth noting Brett Dalton, familiar from Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and Swedish actor Peter Stormare, who played in the cult film The Big Lebowski.
In our selection, we simply could not ignore Clancy Brown, whose appearance and voice were given to Lieutenant Hank Anderson from Detroit: Become Human. You can endlessly watch three things: how the fire burns, how the water flows, and how the 61-year-old actor plays an elderly alcoholic who is grieving a personal tragedy.
It is, of course, up to you to decide how authentically Brown was able to reveal his character. We can only add that this is not the actor's first appearance in games. For several years, from 1997 to 2003, he voiced Neo Cortex, the antagonist of the Crash Bandicoot series. And he did it, I must say, excellently.
Well, we are transported to Cuba. Sorry, to «a certain country in the grip of a revolution». The island of Yara is ruled by the brutal dictator Anton Castillo, played by Giancarlo Esposito, probably familiar to you from his role as Gustavo Fring, the drug lord from the TV series Breaking Bad.
In one of the interviews, the actor spoke about his character, highlighting several key things: «He really wants the best for the country, but lives in a world that is changing much faster than himself. So he's looking for a way to make people believe in him». Whether this is true or not, we will find out very soon. Far Cry 6 should hit store shelves in the spring of 2021.
Another David Cage project and another amazing actor. In 2013, Beyond: Two Souls was released, one of the roles in which was played by Willem Dafoe, a four-time Oscar nominee and the hero of the You know, I'm something of a scientist myself meme. In the interactive movie from Quantic Dream, he appears as a workaholic scientist with obvious mental disabilities.
Everyone loved Dafoe's performance so much that he was even nominated for a Spike Video Game Award for Best Voice Actor. In one of the interviews, the actor who played Nathan Dawkins noted that he was amazed by Cage's work. «He was a mentor. He said what he wanted to see and what needed to be done. I like this approach», said Defoe.
And I would like to end our selection with a good actor, whose appearance and voice went to the character of a not very good game. The brilliant Kevin Spacey played the main antagonist in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. So it's worth spending time on this very mediocre shooter, if only to appreciate the charisma of the two-time Oscar winner.
The actor himself talked about his task like this: «You come, they put dots all over your face, dress you in a black tight suit, and put a helmet on your head with a camera that shines a flashlight directly into your eyes. Then they take you into an empty room with boxes and say, climb on these boxes, put your hand here as if you were leaning on something, get down from the boxes, sit on the chair and finish your part of the dialogue — filmed!»
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That's all for today. Be sure to share your favorite actor in the comments, whom we simply had to include in the selection. We do not say goodbye!
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