'I Don't Really Want to Do That Again' - Baldur's Gate 3's Astarion Doesn't Want to Keep Rehashing the Same Type of Roles

Neil Newbon's show arsenic Astarion successful Baldur's Gate 3 is among the astir memorable successful the game, and that's saying a batch fixed however galore astonishing actors are successful determination cooking. And Newbon's rightfully arrogant of the bully enactment helium did arsenic Astarion - but, inspired by David Bowie, he's not funny successful rehashing that show again and again.

In an interrogation with FRVR, Newbon talks astir however Bowie was 1 of his aboriginal puerility influences, on with Iggy Pop. “Yes, I deliberation there’s decidedly a Bowie bushed successful me. I’d emotion to play him successful Labyrinth oregon emotion to bash a biopic of him," helium said, adding that helium would “definitely play Jareth successful Labyrinth if idiosyncratic came astatine maine with that."

He says 1 of the lessons he's taken from Bowie is that "repetition breeds stagnation", and that it's bully arsenic an histrion to support making yourself somewhat uncomfortable if you privation to turn your art. “I ever liked that astir him arsenic an artist, that helium was perpetually trying retired caller things,” helium continued. “Sometimes they worked, sometimes they didn’t."

He goes on, saying that helium has been approached to play roles that were described to him arsenic "just similar Astarion." But Newbon isn't funny successful conscionable playing Astarion-like characters implicit and over.

“I’ve decidedly avoided a fewer roles precocious not due to the fact that they were atrocious projects oregon anything, conscionable due to the fact that they, for me, the character—they kinda privation the Astarion thing,” helium said “And it was conscionable like, ‘Well, I don’t truly privation to bash that again. It’s excessively adjacent to the quality I’ve already done, I don’t deliberation I could connection thing needfully that’s absorbing to this peculiar character.'"

Newbon has, however, since picked up a fig of roles that are rather antithetic from Astarion's character. Most recently, he's been sapiant, dateable drying instrumentality Drysdale successful Date Everything!, umbrella-wielding Lumacchio successful the Lies of P DLC, and main quality Chase Lowry successful Dead Take.

Newbon did bespeak successful the interrogation that helium wouldn't caput revisiting Astarion himself arsenic a character, and it's imaginable helium whitethorn get the chance. Last month, HBO announced it was moving connected a Baldur's Gate 3 TV bid that would proceed the communicative from the extremity of the IGN 10/10 game. At its helm is The Last of Us TV show's Craig Manzin, who besides said helium was reaching retired to the formed of the crippled to enactment retired the champion mode to proceed their characters. Whether oregon not that means we'll really spot Newbon reprise Astarion is up successful there, but a vampire person tin surely dream.

Rebekah Valentine is simply a elder newsman for IGN. Got a communicative tip? Send it to [email protected].