Baldur's Gate 3 Astarion actor Neil Newbon says he "got rid of" agents who deliberately kept him away from video game gigs: "They just didn't want me to do it"

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Astarion from Baldur's Gate 3
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It's impossible to imagine what Baldur's Gate 3 would be like without Astarion actor Neil Newbon there to keep things admirably sleazy, but if Newbon had kept working with his former agents, he may never have gotten the chance to drink your blood and be sexy.

"I've had agents turn down three-week mocap gigs that I didn't even know about," Newbon tells Entertainment Weekly in its new interview with members of the "Pixel Pack," some of the gaming industry's most prominent actors.

Newbon began his career performing relatively small roles in traditional acting spaces – theater, TV shows on the Discovery Channel – before starting to build his now 15 years of experience doing motion capture and voice work for games.

Ashley Bardhan
Ashley Bardhan
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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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