This probably shouldn't be included in my 'Professional Clips', but I was paid to do it, so here it is. To be clear though, I'm only posting this here because of how bad it is, in another perfect example of what happens when you don't insist on getting enough information before a shoot! 🤣
For this job, I was contacted by a random broker, who told me it was "a simple role for a Chinese video game." She said they couldn't give me the script in advance, because of 'confidentiality' issues. I, naively, took that at face value, and turned up the morning of to find out it was a much more complicated set up than previously explained.
For the whole shoot, I had no idea I was filming for a Tencent (a Chinese tech company) version of Red Alert, a video game I was aware of, but had never played. I also had no idea who Yuri was, nor what kind of character he was. From the script, I felt like the character should be more aggressive and intimidating, but the director asked me to be lighter, more camp, so of course that's what I did. And as you can see from the result....it didn't exactly work out very well!
Worst still of course, is the fact I was dubbed by someone who, no offence to the voice actor, seems to have had even less idea than I did as to what was going on!
But anyway, there you go. I played an iconic video game character, but ended up producing easily one of the worst performances of my acting career, as the result of my naivety and complacency! So let it be a warning to anyone who might find themselves in a similar position in the future! Never go in blind, always get full details, and research, research, research and prep 100% before you get on set!
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