Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 performance actor says Charlie Cox is "generous" to credit him for Game Awards nomination, explains "bringing Gustave to life was a team effort"

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Gustave winces
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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Gustave voice actor, Daredevil star, and man who does not own a PS5 Charlie Cox has only a vague idea of the French JRPG's tremendous success. Instead of giving him so much credit for bringing Gustave to life, he'd rather you congratulate performance capture actor Maxence Cazorla. But, keeping the ferris wheel of praise turning, Cazorla seems to prefer that he and Cox both take responsibility for the tenacious protagonist, like two proud parents.

"Thank you for all the messages these past few days," Cazorla writes on Twitter November 25, not long after Cox humbly addressed his Best Performance nomination at the forthcoming Game Awards. Cox said that, while he was "thrilled" to be considered, "There's an amazing French actor by the name of Maxence Cazorla who did almost all of the motion capture for that role in that game. So any nomination or any credit I get, I really have to give to him, because I believe that the performance of that character is really down to him, and my voice was just part of that process."

Cazorla certainly deserves celebration – in addition to providing motion capture for Gustave, the actor also performed as antihero Verso and pure evil Renoir. Then, he was the voice of Esquie, the legendary smiley face. Many of Clair Obscur's achievements are his, too.

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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