Actor Peter Serafinowicz has revealed how a chance encounter with fellow Dark Souls superfan Alex Garland led to him landing a role in the upcoming Elden Ring movie.<\/p>\n
Serafinowicz, who is best known as the voice of Darth Maul in Star Wars: Episode I \u2013 The Phantom Menace, for playing Pete in Shaun of the Dead, Garthan Saal in Guardians of the Galaxy, and The Sommelier in John Wick: Chapter 2, picked Dark Souls as one of his Five Brilliant Things in an interview with British comedian Russell Howard.<\/p>\n
Serafinowicz spoke passionately of his love for Dark Souls in the interview, explaining in great detail how its infamous difficulty makes it one of the most rewarding video games ever created. \u201cOnce that clicks, it’s like, oh my god, this is the game I’ve been waiting for my whole life,\u201d he said. \u201cIt teaches you that no obstacle is insurmountable. And it’s just the most satisfying game that I’ve ever played. And there’s a thing about all these games, once you play them and if they click for you, you don’t want to play any other game. And I just haven’t.\u201d<\/p>\n
Serafinowicz went on to explain how he landed one of the most iconic roles in the Dark Souls series and, later, Elden Ring: the male character’s dying sounds and pain grunts. He said that he basically bullied his way into a voice acting role in Dark Souls 2, having loved the first so much. FromSoftware cast him as the voice behind Mild-Mannered Pate, but he also ended up doing something far more important\u2026<\/p>\n
\u201cI eventually got in touch with the software company and said, \u2018Look, I hear you’re making Dark Souls 2.\u2019 And I couldn’t have been more excited that they were making another one. And I said, \u2018Look, I’m an actor. I’m good at voices. I’d love to be a voice in the game.\u2019 And I kind of bullied my way into being\u2026 I played a character in the game and they don’t have big, huge cutscenes and loads of dialogue blah blah blah and dialogue trees\u2026. kind of boring, right? Just like just these little kind of bits, you know? And so I played this character in Dark Souls 2.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut far more thrillingly for me, they asked me to provide the exertion noises for if you played as a male character, right? So all the, ‘when you die,’ which is often in these games. I play Elden Ring now and they’ve kept my sounds in all the subsequent games.<\/p>\n
\u201cI always forget if when I pick it up and have a little go and I die it’s like me right? It’s a weird way to be immortalized in this. It’s one of my proudest achievements.\u201d<\/p>\n
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