Neil Newbon, the actor behind Baldur's Gate 3's roguish vampire companion, discusses the journey of the Dungeons & Dragons game's release and his role in shaping the character of Astarion.
Baldur’s Gate 3auditions to how the character developed over years of iteration and feedback during Early Access—check out our interview with Newbon below, condensed and edited for clarity.James Whitbrook, io9: Tell me a little about how you first got involved with the game. What was Astarion first like when you were first going through the audition process?When I was asked to audition it was actually for a whole bunch of different possible roles, not a specific character.
Astarion is a deep and complicated character—truly one of the richest I’ve ever played and I feel incredibly lucky and humbled that not only Larian have supported my development of him with Stephen’s words, but that the community really liked the work we offered up and that the audience really embraced him. The interesting thing as an actor in this game is that you get to play every outcome of a potential relationship.
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