#Dead space ellie skin
She’s actually a little darker than me (I have olive skin but my Dad is SUPER white!) Also her eyes aren’t brown. It’s easier to see it now because my hair is longer but her face is pretty similar to mine. You don’t know the crew or the cast and you’re a little embarrassed but by the third day you’ve hung up your adult ego at the door and you prance around like a five year old!ĭoes this also mean that Ellie’s likeness is based upon your own appearance? You are very constrained by the world in the game, meaning you have to be aware of where you’re walking because in the game you may very well be walking through a wall or off a bridge! Also the first couple of days are a little weird. That’s not to say there aren’t a few issues. Suddenly your imagination kicks in and you remember why you wanted to be an actor in the first place! The stage is bare except for maybe a block or desk which you have to pretend is a spaceship, a giant drill or a nest of Necromorphs! It’s actually a very liberating way to act. Actually I’d never done voiceover either! So the thought of doing motion capture was both exhilarating and frightening in equal measure! It turns out that doing motion capture is a lot like theatre. Although with the way the cameras are set up to capture images we weren’t always looking at each other during the scene which made it a little… odd!Ĭan you talk us through the motion capture process? Having the person there really helps make a very barren stage seem more real. During that time we also had a few voiceover sessions in the sound booth without motion capture (for audio logs etc.).ĭid you get to act alongside Gunner Wright as Isaac Clarke, or were your recordings done separately?Īll my motion capture scenes were with Gunner which was really helpful. We’d rehearse a few scenes one day, record them the next and keep going like that until the script was finished. Then we would break the script down into a shooting schedule. She may come across as tough to some people but really she’s extremely vulnerable, and it’s the hiding of her emotions and vulnerability that make her seem like a tough chick. She knows that if she starts to care for Isaac and something happens to him she’ll be destroyed. Ultimately she has to learn to trust him but also to let him in, past this wall she’s built up. She can’t allow herself to feel too much, so when she meets Isaac she is extremely guarded and not just because he’s a stranger. So she’s totally scarred from that experience and I think that colours the rest of her journey. She had to cut the arms and legs off her friends in an effort to survive. During the game we find out that her entire crew had been attacked and ultimately turned into Necromorphs. Very calm, very intelligent, very not like me!!! I didn’t realize that I had been re-cast until the morning of the table read and they handed me the script for the role of Ellie (originally called “Rose”) and said I was now Isaac’s new lady!
I actually auditioned for and was cast as the Therapist who was originally written as a pretty cool chick. What attracted you to the role of Ellie Langford? Were you familiar with the franchise beforehand? Which is confusing because it wasn’t a commercial! I got a call from my commercial agent asking if I wanted to audition for it. How did you come to be involved with Dead Space 2?
I grew up in the UK but have spent nearly the same amount of time in the US so my accent is weird. My job is awesome and yet really silly when you think about it.
Hello Sonita, thank you for your time and welcome to AMO!Ĭan you tell our readers a little bit about yourself please? New female lead Ellie Langford was also praised: “her interactions with Clarke sparkle with genuine comradery, as well as offering occasional comic relief.” We were therefore understandably delighted when Ellie’s voice actress Sonita Henry agreed to join us to discuss her first foray into the world of video game voice acting! In AMO’s recent review of Dead Space 2, we described it as “an early contender for game of the year”.
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