{"id":89194,"date":"2026-09-10T17:55:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T21:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=89194"},"modified":"2026-09-10T18:44:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T22:44:17","slug":"arthur-morgans-coughing-fits-in-red-dead-redemption-2-sound-so-real-because-actor-roger-clark-was-actually-sick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=89194","title":{"rendered":"Arthur Morgan’s Coughing Fits in Red Dead Redemption 2 Sound So Real Because Actor Roger Clark Was Actually Sick"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This article contains spoilers for Red Dead Redemption 2<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Red Dead Redemption 2<\/a> actor Roger Clark has revealed that Arthur Morgan’s gnarly coughing fits were actually recorded when he was sick in real life.<\/p>\n

I recently interviewed Roger Clark for a YouTube video<\/a> about how Arthur Morgan from Red Dead Redemption was crafted. During our lengthy conversation, I was able to ask him something I’ve always wondered: How taxing is it to pretend to violently cough like Arthur does? According to Clark, it’s actually not that bad \u2014 and in some cases, he wasn’t even pretending.<\/p>\n

“It’s not as bad as you’d think, because I had five years to spread it out,” said Clark. “If ever there was a really bad coughing scene, we’d always save it for the end of the day. So, it wasn’t as bad as you might think. I had five years to space it out. In five years, there’s plenty of colds. There was a lot of data we got that was pretty damn genuine. […] I’d be like ‘Hey, I’ve got a cold, let me get in there.’ And they’d be like, ‘Okay.’ […] Nice good bit of phlegm.”<\/p>\n

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There’s really no better<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This article contains spoilers for Red Dead Redemption 2. Red Dead Redemption 2 actor Roger Clark has revealed that Arthur Morgan’s gnarly coughing fits were actually recorded when he was sick in real life. I recently interviewed Roger Clark for a YouTube video about how Arthur Morgan from Red Dead Redemption was crafted. During our…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":194,"featured_media":89196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89194","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\/89194"}],"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\/194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89194"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89198,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89194\/revisions\/89198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/89196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}