{"id":85685,"date":"2026-07-10T07:27:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T11:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=85685"},"modified":"2026-07-10T08:38:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T12:38:51","slug":"i-just-cant-believe-my-luck-dark-souls-superfan-peter-serafinowicz-reveals-how-he-landed-a-role-in-the-upcoming-elden-ring-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=85685","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I Just Can&#8217;t Believe My Luck&#8217; \u2014 Dark Souls Superfan Peter Serafinowicz Reveals How He Landed a Role in the Upcoming Elden Ring Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>Actor Peter Serafinowicz has revealed how a chance encounter with fellow Dark Souls superfan Alex Garland led to him landing a role in the upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/movies\/elden-ring\">Elden Ring<\/a> movie.<\/p>\n<p>Serafinowicz, who is best known as the voice of Darth Maul in Star Wars: Episode I \u2013 The Phantom Menace, for playing Pete in Shaun of the Dead, Garthan Saal in Guardians of the Galaxy, and The Sommelier in John Wick: Chapter 2, picked Dark Souls as one of his Five Brilliant Things in <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/r7aIlWsdg3I?si=5Kcxz9eL5nyLbZah\">an interview with British comedian Russell Howard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Serafinowicz spoke passionately of his love for Dark Souls in the interview, explaining in great detail how its infamous difficulty makes it one of the most rewarding video games ever created. \u201cOnce that clicks, it&#8217;s like, oh my god, this is the game I&#8217;ve been waiting for my whole life,\u201d he said. \u201cIt teaches you that no obstacle is insurmountable. And it&#8217;s just the most satisfying game that I&#8217;ve ever played. And there&#8217;s a thing about all these games, once you play them and if they click for you, you don&#8217;t want to play any other game. And I just haven&#8217;t.\u201d<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"ignvideo\" data-slug=\"how-dark-souls-undead-burg-teaches-through-suffering-art-of-the-level\" data-loop=\"\">\n<p>Serafinowicz went on to explain how he landed one<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Peter Serafinowicz has revealed how a chance encounter with fellow Dark Souls superfan Alex Garland led to him landing a role in the upcoming Elden Ring movie. Serafinowicz, who is best known as the voice of Darth Maul in Star Wars: Episode I \u2013 The Phantom Menace, for playing Pete in Shaun of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":85687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85685"}],"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\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85685"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85689,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85685\/revisions\/85689"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/85687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}