This sounds bizarre, doesn't it? But having recently spoken to Keythe Farley and also another actor by the name of Phil LaMarr, who you might know best for voicing Samurai Jack, this happens to a lot of performers if they take on video game roles.
FALLOUT 4 ENGLISH CUTSCENES STRINGS SERIES
In fact, Farley would only find out he'd been working on Bethesda's extremely popular post-nuclear RPG series because one of the other actors on the project, who also hadn't been told what the game was called, managed to figure it out while reading the script and then let him know. If you've played it yourself, you'll know that's not an insignificant role. "Every couple of months I'd go in for a session or two, over the course of about a year and a half."Īnd yet, despite these multiple recordings, at no point do they ever tell him that in fact, he's been voicing a character called Conrad Kellogg for a game called Fallout 4.
Some of them won't even have been written yet. It's pretty clear they'll need him back at some point because they don't finish the script they're working through, but due to the nature of game development, nobody can tell him exactly how many lines he has left to voice. Thankfully the script he received was well-written and the character direction made sense (dark and film-noir being the gist of it), although even then, he was only just in that moment learning that he'd be playing one of the game's antagonists.īut he got on with it, because that's what he's paid to do, and completes the session - they're somewhere up to four hours long if you're a voice actor. What's it called? They wouldn't tell him. Well, what game is it? he asks, as he hands back the NDA. "And they said: oh, we're really excited, this is going to be a really big game." "I showed up at our session and signed an non-disclosure agreement saying I wouldn't talk about the game," said Farley. Which means whenever possible, actors are expected to work on a need-to-know basis.īut that raises a couple of interesting points: what does an actor need to know when working on a project, and when exactly do they need to know it? We're going to have a stab at answering those questions a little later on. Publishers are eager to avoid leaks and, well, actors have been known to cause them. Now this level of secrecy isn't particularly uncommon when you're an actor in the games industry, he told me. "I had no idea I was one of the bad guys in the game." Keythe Farley, the voice of Fallout 4's Kellogg. "You don't know, when you go in, if you're going to be working just today," said Farley as he recalled the experience over Skype.
At this point in time he didn't know who he's working for, what the game is called, or in fact, any details about the character he'll be playing. That doesn't tell actually him very much at all: in layman's terms, this means it's a voice acting gig and they probably don't want him to do any motion capture.
He'd landed a role on an upcoming video game, it told him, in which he'd be an 'off-camera principal performer'. Back in 2014, Keythe Farley received an email from his agent.
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