Something that actually interests me is that Bioware has never really worked with the Celebrity Voice Actor Squad
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
Wait, Troy Baker doesn't count now? Is it because it was before he became mainstream with TLOU or am I missing something?
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Replying to @QuelquDeux @BootlegGirl
Yeah you did kind of ignore Troy Baker playing Kai Leng
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Replying to @arthur_affect @QuelquDeux
Oh God he played Kai Leng? So, uh, that raises another question. People have been (I thought pretty justifiably) all over Naughty Dog for casting Laura Bailey as a Black woman twice. But are there actually, like, any minorities IN the VA union?
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I mean apparently they have at least one trans man. But it does seem like a business model that's going to encourage Scarlett Johannsonning it up
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @QuelquDeux
For the record, the union for voice actors and on-camera actors is the same union, SAG-AFTRA
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It used to be that VAs were typically in AFTRA, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, and had to join SAG additionally if they were cast in a movie (which was a formality thanks to the two unions being allied)
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But that bit of bureaucracy was fully eliminated when SAG and AFTRA merged in 2012
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In the case of Ian Alexander this is his first VA role that I'm aware of - they almost certainly cast him because of his on-camera role as Buck on The OA with the intention of having the character be demographically and visually similar to him
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Easier to mocap too, probably, given ND's (expensive!) habit of VA mo capping.
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Yeah, the kind of work they do really blurs the line between on-camera and VO work
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