Claudia Black and Brian Bloom, the actors behind Morrigan and Varric, talk about their art. www.blog.biowar... www.dragonage.com/ / dragonage / dragonage
Varric is my homeboy. I took him everywhere with me. And not just because I was a Warrior and needed him to pick locks for me. My Champion and him just got along from day one.
Heading back to Origins again for a 15th playthrough. Hearing these two lovely voices brought back so many Dragon Age memories that I just have to play it again.
Dear God, I love them both so much! Can't even wrap my brain around that moment when Varric meets Morrigan and how *that* conversation will go. Oiy! The snark (^^)
Brian Bloom and Claudia Black, I humbly thank you for your awesome work, for lending your passion, all your emotions really to those amazing characters. You two have brought my Dragon Age games to life. Thank you ;-)
I adored Claudia Black in Farscape. I also ❤ Dragon Age. Now what makes Claudia a great VA is because there was not 1 second that I thought of Aeryn Sun while listening to Morrigan. I was so immersed in the game and the relationships that it was sometimes easy to forget they were acted.
I often say it: DA2 had a lot of good stuff in it, and even improvements over DA1. Unfortunately, these things were not enough to make up for what was wrong with the game.
I've been a fan of Mr. Bloom's since I saw him in the movie "The Stuff." Years later, he still proves to be just as intelligent and talented. He deserves so much more recognition. Team B.B.
You're right. That's something Bioware likes to do with characters and the actors who voice them. I noticed it a lot in Mass Effect. Illusive Man looks a little like Martin Sheen (his voice actor), along with Joker (Seth Green), Miranda Lawson (Yvonne), etc. I'm not surprised they did it with Varric as well.
I agree. The same as the actor, Michael Ironside, whose looks was blended into the villain, Darkseid, of DC Comics, seen on the "Justice League Unlimited" series, years ago.
Brian Bloom's job as the male Trooper in SWTOR absolutely blew me away, and since then he's been one of my favorite voice actors ever. I actually didn't know he did Varric's voice until afterwards, which made me love him even more. Those eyes are a bonus. Claudia Black does a good job as Morrigan too; she pulls off the "deadpan snarker" archetype very well.
I love seeing videos like this and seeing just how down to earth these people are. Voice talent is my biggest passion. People tell me I have the voice for it and I practice daily modulating my voice into different personalities and it is quite fun. However I personally hate the sound of my regular voice so I find myself using the animated versions far too often.
i WISH i could get into voice acting. ppl tell me i COULD do it(& that i should), but how? no money usually = no opprotunities, no matter how good u r. im no exception.
@@edyoung4294 I don't think so, how many actors really start off rich? It's just that you have to practice, audition, and possibly go to a school to learn.
when Morrigan's voice actor said that line "well well, what have we here" it didnt sound eactly like the time we first mer her in origins, is it revoiced for inquisition, so we got both morigan and Flemeth greeting us with the same line...wao *^'
I'm so upset that I didn't have proper recording equipment. I couldn't read those lines for that contest to meet these great people and get tips to become a proper voice actor
He will always hold a special place in my gaming memories thanks to his role as Kane from the Kane & Lynch games... and damn, do they need to make new one.
Love Claudia Black and so happy to see her coming back for part 3 in this series. Brian Bloom kept me staved over while playing SWTOR with the voice over of the Trooper.
Man! I so want to jump through the screen just to get to Claudia Black even though I like her better with dark hair. Also, I can't believe that I feel like I've watched Brian Bloom grow up on screen. I remember him as a child in Once Upon a Time in America.
"Andraste's Dimpled Buttcheeks!" favorite Varric line. I could also listen to Claudia Black say anything, dayum that's a sexy voice. Loved her as the one of the quarian leaders in ME series too. She needs to be in every game imo.
Blum's a really talented guy. It seemed like a bit of a risk on Bioware's part to have him voice Oghren in the first game and Varric in the second and third games considering that they're both major characters, but somehow he manages to pull it off. Honestly, when I learned that he did Varric's voice, I was surprised.
0neredlight Wow. I did not notice that. Okay, they're both talented. Just not quite as talented as I thought they were when I believed that they were the same person.
KathTea Katastrophy - Corsetiere & Model Bodahn Feddic had an English accent. Kinda. Orlando Bloom can just play a surface dwarf or change his accent for his character, considering he's an actor and all. The important thing is that people with Blum or Bloom as a surname play dwarves in the Dragon Age franchise.
dik hed yes i know she not party member but varric will be and there we'll be talk to each if bring varric i imagine. Is all i meant. I remember hearing she will have a big role.
I just love the people they get for these games while it is cool to hear about a voice actor who watches anime or plays video games even the people they bring in who don't play games you can still feel they aren't just kinda phoning it in you feel like actually care about Bringing this character to life. it is what makes Bioware games that one step above the rest of most games out there
Please keep posting videos like these! It's so fantastic to hear the actors talk about their characters. Long time Claudia Black fan. Must see... Gideon Emery... taking about Fenris...
Came back to this video 7 years later just to see Claudia black playing Morrigan again, man what a voice that woman has, still sounds just as good as I remember. She's one of the major reasons I still go back and replay Dragon Age origins, if seductive and sensual was a voice, it would definitely be hers.
