Yahoo! Interviews Yvonne About Mass Effect 2
Yvonne Strahovski is both the voice and face of Miranda Lawson in the new game Mass Effect 2
Yahoo! Games: Let’s talk a little bit about Mass Effect 2. You’re playing the character of Miranda Lawson. Can you talk about how you got the gig, and what you responded to in that character?
Yvonne Strahovski: Mass Effect initially approached me and then I looked it up and got interested in it. I’m not a gamer so I’ve never really been familiar with this type of media. I got a look at it, and I was interested in doing it, and it’s been a really fun, interesting process.
You have to recite different versions of the same scene, because there are branching paths in the storyline?
Yeah, a little bit. It gets confusing at times because there’s not a script that follows one line all the way through – there’s a million different avenues you can go down, so when you’re recording you have to record every different version of how a scene can end, and it’s kind of hard to follow.
Did you actually have to play different versions of the same characters – does the character evolve differently depending on which path the player chooses, and was that an acting challenge?
It’s more like, if you as the player – if you’re Shepard – if you choose to get to know Miranda better, then she’ll tell you more about herself. If you don’t ask her questions, then you won’t know. As the game goes on, if you choose to find out more about Miranda, you’ll find that she has a bit of a side story, and what her secret agenda is.
The Mass Effect games – and Bioware games in general – are known for having potential romantic attachments between the player and various supporting characters in the game. Is that one of the possible paths between Shepard and Miranda Lawson?
Well, put it this way: anything can happen.
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