{"id":77656,"date":"2026-05-08T08:11:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T12:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=77656"},"modified":"2026-05-08T08:36:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T12:36:33","slug":"expedition-33-star-says-video-games-are-finally-winning-over-acting-snobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=77656","title":{"rendered":"Expedition 33 Star Says Video Games Are Finally Winning Over Acting Snobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Video games have featured famous faces for decades now, but they&#8217;ve often suffered from a stigma of providing subpar entertainment when compared to movies and TV. Things are changing lately, thanks to games like The Last of Us, and last year&#8217;s smash-hit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/games\/clair-obscur-expedition-33\/\">Clair Obscur: Expedition 33<\/a> making a strong case for how actors can still deliver emotional performances through this digital medium. One of the Expedition 33&#8217;s stars, Andy Serkis, has spoken about how there has been a shift in attitudes from actors, with a new generation of thespians wanting to appear in video games.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t see any difference in that or acting in films, on stage, or TV,&#8221; Serkis said to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BnMgMr5nDaw&amp;t=35s\">Variety<\/a>. &#8220;It&#8217;s exactly the same; you approach and build a character the same way. My first engagement with video games was with a company called Ninja Theory, and we made a game called Heavenly Sword for PS3. At that point, actors looked down on video games as like, &#8216;I wouldn&#8217;t get involved in a video game&#8217;. Now, young actors coming out of drama schools, and they&#8217;re like, I really want to be in a video game. There has always been that snobbery about video games not being anywhere<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video games have featured famous faces for decades now, but they&#8217;ve often suffered from a stigma of providing subpar entertainment when compared to movies and TV. Things are changing lately, thanks to games like The Last of Us, and last year&#8217;s smash-hit Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 making a strong case for how actors can still&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":77658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-gamespot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77656"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77656"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77659,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77656\/revisions\/77659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}