Baldur's Gate 3 Astarion actor says his new dating sim character sounded too much like his iconic vampire voice, so he had to base his performance on a fictional sex symbol from an '80s British sitcom instead

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"We wanted to make sure that he wasn't going to fall into the Astarion trope too much"

Baldur's Gate 3 the vampire Astarion
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Neil Newbon can't help sounding like Astarion from Baldur's Gate 3, given that he has the same voice, so when he approached the role of a personified clothes dryer in Date Everything, he channeled late actor Rik Mayall's performance of Lord Flashheart from the acclaimed '80s British sitcom Blackadder. What a lede, amirite?

Newbon recently said his approach to method acting sometimes makes it hard to shake off mannerisms from various characters he's portrayed, and in particular said his performance as Astarion still affects the way he laughs today. It makes sense then that he and the developers of Date Everything, a game that turns household items into hot people you can then date, would want to take measures to make Drysdale the dryer sound distinct from Astarion.

Jordan Gerblick
Jordan Gerblick

After earning an English degree from ASU, I worked as a corporate copy editor while freelancing for places like SFX Magazine, Screen Rant, Game Revolution, and MMORPG on the side. I got my big break here in 2019 with a freelance news gig, and I was hired on as GamesRadar's west coast Staff Writer in 2021. That means I'm responsible for managing the site's western regional executive branch, AKA my home office, and writing about whatever horror game I'm too afraid to finish.

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