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featuring part of an alleged casting script for British actors reading for the part of Lara Croft herself. “They’re looking for a female in their mid-30s, who’s white, five-foot-six, athletic, and a prototype of Emily Blunt, Rosamund Pike, etc,” Moriarty read.Lara Croft is now at the top of her game. Gone are the days of the young inexperienced woman dealing with matters of legacy and familial reckoning, Lara has let go of her childhood and fully embraced a life of adventure and purpose.
After that, his co-hosts Chris and Dustin acted out the two casting scenes, featuring Lara, a woman named Tanvi, and a man named Devindra . Lastly, Moriarty reads a note that the female actor they’re looking for may have “romantic scenes with another female character,” but that “there is no nudity or simulated sex.”
I obtained a copy of the original DMCA notice from Moriarty. While it’s vague about what, exactly, Crystal Dynamics takes issue with, there aren’t a lot of possibilities. Even the YouTube version of the primarily-audio podcast has no visuals that would belong to Square Enix, no logos, and no pictures of Lara, not even transformative ones. It’s just audio. “I read maybe 2/5 of the coverpage, generally verbatim, and then we acted out the two scenes that were given to me,” Moriarty tells me.
“I personally think we could make a ‘fair use’ play, both in notability of the news and in our interpretation of the script, but I don’t have the time, means, or energy to fight, and I don’t wanna open us up to further trouble. Easier to capitulate, sadly, which — if I may be conspiratorial — seems to be the point in these cases. I’m a person running a business out of my house; Square Enix is, well, Square Enix,” he tells me., joined Moriarty in the follow-up video.
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