You get a 10-minute briefing with the director and maybe a dev, and then you go'Ĭissy Jones on when she typically gets a script She's since appeared in dozens of projects of all scales, from playing the central role of Delilah in indie hit Firewatch to providing a variety of smaller roles for blockbusters like Grand Theft Auto V and Horizon: Zero Dawn. Cissy Jones has been doing voice work for games since about 2010, when she took a job as Katjaa for Telltale Games' The Walking Dead. In some ways, Bisutti's experience is typical for video game voice actors. Like many actors in games, Bisutti didn't know what she was getting herself into when she auditioned Gaming's Black Box

'I really wish I'd done a little more research prior to the table read because when I was done with that, I was like, 'They're going to fire me. She'd never done performance capture, and she was still very new to voice acting at that point.Īdd in that she was only then discovering who she would be acting alongside (an accomplished cast including Christopher Judge, Alastair Duncan, Robert Craighead, and Adam Harrington), and that the material was taking a much deeper dive into Norse mythology than she was familiar with, and Bisutti confessed to feeling particularly intimidated. Despite a successful career as an actress-she's had recurring roles on hit series like The O.C., Parks and Recreation, and CSI: Miami, and appeared in movies like Curse of Chucky and the Insidious horror franchise-Bisutti had never worked on a video game before. It didn't help that Bisutti was already a little out of her comfort zone. It was an unusual sequence of events for Bisutti, who said normally she would fully know what project she was doing considerably before that. It ended up turning into God of War at some point.'īisutti landed the role, but she didn't learn what the project was or who she was working with until she came in to do a table read with the rest of the game's cast.

'When I got the sides, it read a little bit like Game of Thrones, so for all I knew I was going in to be the next Khaleesi Mother of Dragons. That's Danielle Bisutti, describing for how she came to play the part of Freya in this year's critical and commercial smash God of War. I just knew it was an interactive situation with Sony. They were very clandestine with their information.

'When I went into the God of War audition, I had no idea what it was.

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