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Baldur's Gate 3 Karlach actor teases more about whether the "key cast" will return for the HBO sequel series

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Total Film

Samantha Béart and Ben Starr headline a new Stronghold game coming to Steam later this year

Stronghold 4 made its world premiere today at the PC Gaming Show.

PC Gamer

Bungie sets Marathon apart from Arc Raiders' AI-infused voices with a stacked cast of actors including Baldur's Gate 3 and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 talent

With the likes of Jennifer English, Ben Starr, and Tracy Wiles taking part

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Marathon's full voice cast includes talent from Deus Ex, Baldur's Gate 3, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Red Dead Redemption and loads more

It's an all-Starr cast.

PC Gamer

Voice actor for Baldur's Gate 3's Karlach says 'we're still seen as outsources' in game dev: 'There's a weird disconnect'

Samantha Béart says the realities of studios and fans are very different.

PC Gamer

Baldur's Gate 3 Karlach actor says cast members are still underrated by video game developers, who see them "as outsources for a lot of the time": "There's a weird disconnect"

Tell Samantha Béart she's a star right now!

GamesRadar

I screwed up Karlach's ending in Baldur's Gate 3: I thought I'd picked her best outcome but her actor says 'not very much' of her is actually left

Honestly it was impossible for me to know it was a bad idea.

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RPG players stun Larian yet again: Karlach's actor says Baldur's Gate 3's extra character endings were always planned and the devs didn't expect fans to "rush to the end"

Hang on, soldier

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Larian jumped to improve Karlach's ending in Baldur's Gate 3 right away, with voice actor Samantha Béart saying it was nigh-on immediate: 'As soon as it was out, I got a call'

"People were still in the character creator."

PC Gamer

Baldur's Gate 3 Karlach actor Samantha Béart was initially turned down for roles like 'Goblin 49,' but 2 years later they were hired 'within a day' of their audition as 'the muscle mummy we know and love'

Béart also had a day job as an IT consultant during the long recording process.

PC Gamer

Baldur's Gate 3 Karlach actor says CEOs "just want to save money" with AI: "It'll destroy their reputation, their company, everything"

They "see it as an easy way to make a return on investment"

GamesRadar

Karlach voice actor offers a pre-emptive no thanks to Disco Elysium successors that don't include the original project lead: 'Miss me with that casting call'

If your post-Disco project doesn't include Robert Kurvitz, Samantha Béart's not interested.

PC Gamer

Baldur's Gate 3 Karlach actor hits out at RPG devs trying to recruit them for their Disco Elysium successors: "Miss me with that casting call"

"If your 'spiritual successor' to Disco Elysium does not involve creator Robert Kurvitz, then save both of us some time"

GamesRadar

Baldur's Gate 3 let Karlach's actor subvert the 'disappointing' RPG romance tropes found in Mass Effect and Dragon Age

Samantha Béart points out the male gaze present in all-female relationships in two classic RPGs

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'I've been disappointed so many times': Karlach from Baldur's Gate 3 talks scrapping the lady stereotypes of RPG romances, says Larian just 'let me do what I wanted to do'

"It was like, early on—who am I talking to? And they were like: 'The player. You're talking to the player.'"

Android Central

Future Games Show 2024 will be hosted by Baldur's Gate 3, Final Fantasy XVI stars

Get ready for over 40 new game announcements on March 21, hosted by Samantha Béart (Karlach) and Ben Starr (Clive Rosfield) at Future Games Show 2024.

PC Gamer

The Future Games show is returning next month and has a special guest: Karlach, who is helping to reveal 'over 40 games'

Samantha Béart will be joined by Final Fantasy 16 actor Ben Starr on March 21.

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Baldur's Gate 3 and Final Fantasy 16 stars will host the Future Games Show Spring Showcase 2024

Ben Starr and Samantha Béart reunite for the new show

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Karlach teams up with Baldur's Gate 3's sex noise man to raise money for a good cause: SpecialEffect, which helps create kit and software for physically disabled gamers

Bringing the joy of video games to everyone.

The Independent UK

‘I like telling difficult stories about contradictory, messy humans’: Meet 2023’s Bafta Breakthroughs

From Florence Pugh to Tom Holland, and Letitia Wright to Jessie Buckley, the names included on the yearly Bafta Breakthrough list are often a spot-on indicator of future industry heavyweights. Here are the names you need to know from the 2023 roster

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Baldur's Gate 3 best girl Karlach was "a little bit more Lae'zel" when auditions started, according to her actor

Karlach started out differently because her actor didn't have all the details she needed for the role

GamesRadar

Baldur's Gate 3's Karlach actor has been getting into her "ride or die" romance with Minthara, confirms "bad Karlach" is totally canon

Swen Vincke shed a little light on Karlach's backstory

GamesRadar

Baldur's Gate 3 Karlach actor says character's divisive ending is actually "very deliberate"

"Maybe we need to ask ourselves why that's the journey and what the message of that might be"

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