Experts agree that Portal 2’s Wheatley is probably the best thing to happen to games all year – although the guy behind the voice behind the, um, ambitious little personality core reckons it was pretty much the most exhausting thing ever.
“I’m in this little recording booth, shouting down these imaginary corridors, imaginary gantries, pretending to fall off things and really trying to move around and live it as best I could,” he tells MTV. “I know it sounds really pretentious, but really try to move around like this robot so my voice would feel like it was animated.”
“I was really working hard to try and put myself in that environment, I guess, which is not something I normally do as a performer. Normally I just rock up and I do the lines and I go away again. I’m not an accomplished actor. But for some reason I was really working hard. When I finished it I was like, ‘I can never do this again, I’m so tired.’ Honestly, I’m not just exaggerating for the interview. I was really tired.”
“By the third or fourth session, I was not looking forward to it. I was just like: ‘I’m gonna be exhausted after this’. So, at the time, I was thinking, ‘Oh, I don’t fancy doing this again’.”
But what if we asked nicely? Oh, okay. Only because we asked so nicely. For science, of course.
“I’m a robot, I don’t need to die,” he says. “They could bring me back anyway if they wanted. Make it a prequel!”
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