{"id":14967,"date":"2024-06-27T15:37:23","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T13:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/27\/suddenly-i-can-play-anybody-what-its-like-to-act-in-a-video-game\/"},"modified":"2024-06-27T15:37:23","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T13:37:23","slug":"suddenly-i-can-play-anybody-what-its-like-to-act-in-a-video-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/27\/suddenly-i-can-play-anybody-what-its-like-to-act-in-a-video-game\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Suddenly I can play anybody\u2019: what it\u2019s like to act in a video game"},"content":{"rendered":"

The stars of YouTube D&D series Natural Six Harry McEntire, Doug Cockle and Ben Starr reveal the challenges and joys of creating characters for roles than can stretch to 40 hours of invisible screen time<\/p>\n

As an actor, Doug Cockle is no stranger to unsettling workplaces. From battling Nazis in Spielberg\u2019s Band of Brothers to rubbing shoulders with Christian Bale in dragon romp Reign of Fire, disappearing into a role on set \u2013 whatever the set may be \u2013 has become second nature. Yet when he landed his first video game role in 2001, Cockle found himself suddenly standing completely alone in a vocal booth.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is bizarre,\u201d he says. \u201cYou just have to be in the character in that moment in that world, in your brain. On stage and screen, you have other actors, you have props, costumes \u2026 all these things that are helping you do this thing called \u2018acting\u2019. When you\u2019re a voice actor, it\u2019s just you in the booth and the director and the engineer on the other side of a glass wall, eating Jelly Babies.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nThe stars of YouTube D&D series Natural Six Harry McEntire, Doug Cockle and Ben Starr reveal the challenges and joys of creating characters for roles than can stretch to 40 hours of invisible screen time
\nAs an actor, Doug Cockle is no stranger to unsettling workplaces. From battling Nazis in Spielberg\u2019s Band of Brothers to rubbing shoulders with Christian Bale in dragon romp Reign of Fire, disappearing into a role on set \u2013 whatever the set may be \u2013 has become second nature. Yet when he landed his first video game role in 2001, Cockle found himself suddenly standing completely alone in a vocal booth.
\n\u201cIt is bizarre,\u201d he says. \u201cYou just have to be in the character in that moment in that world, in your brain. On stage and screen, you have other actors, you have props, costumes \u2026 all these things that are helping you do this thing called \u2018acting\u2019. When you\u2019re a voice actor, it\u2019s just you in the booth and the director and the engineer on the other side of a glass wall, eating Jelly Babies.\u201d Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The stars of YouTube D&D series Natural Six Harry McEntire, Doug Cockle and Ben Starr reveal the challenges and joys of creating characters for roles than can stretch to 40 hours of invisible screen time As an actor, Doug Cockle is no stranger to unsettling workplaces. From battling Nazis in Spielberg\u2019s Band of Brothers to …<\/p>\n

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