We sat doing with neilnewbon to discuss taking on the role of Astarion in larianstudios' Baldur's Gate 3, and he shared how blessed he feels to have found such a great role, alongside some great development stories. Our interview: BaldursGate3 BG3
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT The highly-anticipated Baldur's Gate 3 finally arrives this month, over two decades after the last mainline entry in the franchise. The game is developed and published by Larian Studios, which previously worked on the Divinity series.
I think to play a character who has this trauma and comes from the situation essentially of abuse, to then be able to discover their own life, discover their identity, forge new friendships, possibly romance the player, et cetera - it's a very human story and it resonates a lot with people I think - I hope it does, anyway.
I saw you mentioned in another interview that while there wasn't a whole lot of improvisation, there were a handful of lines that you created as you were recording. Are there any that stand out to you from that? And you helped with directing as well with this project. I'm curious how it compares to other direction you've done - you did the directing with Deliver Us Mars, for example. Did it vary at all from your past projects, and what was it like in general?
I'm very lucky that I have a long, huge career in motion capture and performance capture and I know what it's like to be an actor, but also understand what's useful - I hope. I think I managed to really help some new actors into being able to explore the character a bit more than they might dare.
I think for me personally, because I'm not literally involved in the mechanics of how the combat works or how you go into sneak mode in turn based, it didn't really impact me, but I think it's very useful for us as actors to understand that. I still think it's magic, the way that people create games. I assume developers go in with a cauldron and it's just like, "Boom! A whole new system." [Laughs] It's really cool.
Neil Newbon: It was great. I got to see her in London, which was awesome. I got to sit in on one of the sessions which was wicked because she's phenomenally talented. It was just a real joy. And that's not like a brag, that's just to facilitate the imagination of the player, and I think for a company to do that is f****** incredible. I was blown away by the permutations and the possibilities and what they were thinking, trying to think of their players as well. They're trying to think as players, "What would I do in this situation? Right, let's make it happen." It's extraordinary. This game is really, really something.
I didn't have one bad day; I had one challenging day where physically I was burning out; I was working so much that physically my voice went, my body went, I was just like a jelly mess, so I took a couple of days off and then was back in again. But never bad days in terms of the work or in terms of people. PitStop is an incredible organization, an incredible audio studio that really has a great family vibe there.
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