After 4 years with Larian, Baldur's Gate 3 Alfira actor didn't know her character could immediately die until it had already happened: "I was like, 'What?! Did they just kill her off?'"

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How could you do this to Rebecca Hanssen?!

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Baldur's Gate 3 is a game of possibilities, but only some are worthy of your favorite funeral dirge. Alfira actor Rebecca Hanssen learned this the hard way.

"I don't think I fully realized that there could be a 'less fortunate ending,'" Hanssen tells GamesRadar+ when we ask at the Golden Joystick Awards. "When the game came out, a lot of my friends were messaging me in that first week like, 'Oh.' I don't want to give anything away, but I think everybody's played it by now. 'Your character just immediately died. I thought you were recording this for, like, four years.'"

"She means so much to so many people as well," Hanssen comments. "So it's nice having the juxtaposition between the two." Music and intestines – just a typical day for Alfira.

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Ashley Bardhan
Ashley Bardhan
Senior Writer

Ashley is a Senior Writer at GamesRadar+. She's been a staff writer at Kotaku and Inverse, too, and she's written freelance pieces about horror and women in games for sites like Rolling Stone, Vulture, IGN, and Polygon. When she's not covering gaming news, she's usually working on expanding her doll collection while watching Saw movies one through 11.

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