Warning, spoilers for Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree lie ahead. While everyone loves Messmer, another Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree chracter that's become a hit is Igon, the warrior who shows up at one point to essentially drop a brutally scathing diss track on big bad dragon boss Bayle the Dread. As it turns out, the actor who delivered those lines, Richard Charles Lintern, had a pretty bewildering, but fun, time doing so.
In an interview with IGN , Lintern has recounted his experience working with FromSoft and Miyazaki on the DLC, which was his first foray into video game voice acting, despite having appeared in plenty of TV shows, films, and theatre productions. "I'm not entirely stupid, but I had not heard of Mr. Miyazaki before," the actor said, "I didn't know the game, and I didn't know the status of the game, and I didn't know his status.
But when I walked into the room, his status was very clear, very clear immediately. Everyone was very friendly, but at the same time, I could see that this was a bigger deal than I'd imagined it was going to be." He continues that while he found the lines he was given for Igon "largely incomprehensible" at first, aside from the obvious themes that the character was in pain and really, really harboured a deep, burning distate for aome fellow named Bayle.
A couple of hours into what turned out to be a much more intense and lengthy recording process than Lintern had anticipated given the size of the part, the actor flagged what he .
