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EXPLAINED: Shadowheart - The Real Truth

Baldur's Gate 3 Shadowheart actor was "fully expecting" Larian to cut her "finger-guns" gag about deadly poison, but "it ended up being in the game"

Jennifer English was as surprised as anyone

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"GURL IT'S HAPPENING": A Shadowheart Nendoroid figure is on the way, and Baldur's Gate 3 fans are losing it

Baldur's Gate 3 Shadowheart Nendoroid figure teased, and fans are losing it

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Shadowheart and Lae'zel's Baldur's Gate 3 romance came naturally because their writers realised they 'were writing the same story from different directions'

Green alien lady, goth cult lady: tom-ay-to, tom-ah-to.

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Baldur's Gate 3 Shadowheart writer had to sit down with his Lae'zel counterpart to make sure that their joint romance would actually make sense: "That allowed us to reframe their initial clash"

"We realized we were writing the same story from different directions"

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Baldur's Gate 3 TV show: Everything we know so far about the upcoming HBO fantasy series

HBO is making another video game adaptation with the newly announced Baldur's Gate 3 TV show, so here's all the details

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Baldur's Gate 3's Shadowheart and Gale star in Magic: The Gathering's new D&D Secret Lair – "pre-queue" opens next week an hour before they inevitably sell out

Get 'em while they're hot

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The thing I wanted more of from Baldur's Gate 3 is also something Larian wants to improve on in Divinity: "More interaction between companions"

Just a couple of pals palling around an RPG

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Baldur's Gate 3 Shadowheart actor says she would have "absolutely f***ing floundered" if she were cast in Larian's RPG at the start of her career: "It's so overwhelming"

"You're basically sight-reading"

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Baldur's Gate 3 actor reveals Shadowheart's pal Nocturne was more of a "sexy demon" until she "found Nocturne on the spot" in a "girl next door" vibe

"I must have spent the first hour or so giving sexy demon"

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The new Forgotten Realms books are set after Baldur's Gate 3 and show Karlach found her happy ending, though one jerk wizard also dodged his comeuppance

All my homies hate Lorroakan.

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Obsidian is right: I want less romance in my RPGs, actually

Let's set some realistic goals here: jokes banned by 1492 DR. Sex banned by 1498 DR. A Flaming Fist in every household by 1506 DR.

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Baldur's Gate 3 Shadowheart writer snuck a line into the RPG's epilogue to reference her actor's real-life relationship: "That's us!"

Maybe God's favorite princess really *is* the most interesting girl in the world

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Baldur's Gate 3 Shadowheart actor says "I really like doing morally questionable things in video games" as a performer, but Dark Urge is too challenging as a player: "I'm trying so hard to be evil"

Can the Best Girl ever be bad?

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Elden Ring, Baldur's Gate 3, and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 actor Jennifer English says she's appeared in "sh*t games," too - but they're not on her CV, so good luck finding them

It's not all Shadowhearts and Latennas for Jennifer English

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Baldur's Gate 3 Shadowheart actor was in "a lot of debt" before the breakout RPG, a "really classist" reality for many industry performers: "How on Earth do you do it?"

Jennifer English gets real about acting in video games

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Baldur's Gate 3 Shadowheart actor "didn't want" to record 1 of the RPG's most iconic lines at first "because I'm avoidant," but "just like God's favorite princess, I did it in my own time"

And we're so glad she did

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Baldur's Gate 3 Shadowheart actor says she "would respec" the Trickery Domain Cleric companion while playing the RPG "personally," as she just "ain't that"

Jennifer English shares her "hot take"

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Baldur's Gate 3 performance director says it's a "shame" video game actors are "not being considered" for adaptations: "Why was Doug Cockle not in the TV series, The Witcher?"

The OG voices behind beloved characters are "being slept on"

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Shadowheart is the most-respecced Baldur's Gate 3 companion and it's not even close: everyone knew to make her a Life or Death Domain Cleric, which Larian says "checks out"

The Trickery Domain is for squares

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Baldur's Gate 3 and now Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 actor Jennifer English says some scenes in the French JRPG are among "the most gut-wrenching things I've ever had to do"

Jennifer Svedberg-Yen "wrote the most beautiful script"

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Baldur's Gate 3 Astarion actor says "AI sucks" and "doesn't work very well," and even if it didn't suck, "so what? Why not make it with people? Why not have more fun?"

"Even if it comes to a point where you can't tell the difference, so what?" asks Neil Newbon

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Baldur's Gate 3 Shadowheart actor thinks it was "so much fun" to play a Dark Justiciar, but she's "team white-haired Shadowheart all the way" herself: "Get her adopting those owlbears"

Take the high road in the RPG, says Jennifer English

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Baldur's Gate 3 star obviously thinks Shadowheart is "so badass" but relates more to her Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 character: "Not in any way as cool, nor can I swordfight"

Jennifer English is also Team White-Haired Shadowheart

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Don't play Shadowheart in Baldur's Gate 3, says Shadowheart actor, or at least not as an Origin character: "Don't do that, because then you lose loads of my conversational dialogue"

"My lady Shar tasked me with a mission of such secrecy that I surrendered great swathes of my memory"

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Actor behind beloved Elden Ring, Baldur's Gate 3, and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 characters puts her RPG hot streak down to "pure luck"

Jennifer English says "it's more about the audience and the fans, and it's about how much they loved it," anyway

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