D&D’s Regé-Jean Page says playing Diablo and JRPGs made him an actor
In the weeks before filming Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, Wizards of the Coast copywriter Sarra Scherb gathered stars Regé-Jean Page, Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Sophia Lillis, and Justice Smith and directors John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein around a table for a special D&D one-shot about a party being chased across a bottomless chasm by a sentient drilling machine. Obviously.
Everyone played as the character classes of their characters in the movie — Page as a paladin, Pine as a bard, Rodriguez as a barbarian, Lillis as a druid, Smith as a sorcerer, and Daley and Goldstein as… a two-headed bird creature. According to Page, the group found an immediate rhythm.
“We were all playing our characters, feeling that vibe, seeing how you could push the other characters, what kind of energy they bring to it — [D&D] is just an improv game for actors, you know?” the actor tells Polygon. “And learning that if you do something crazy, you’ve got Chris Pine sitting next to [you], he’s going to take that ball and run with it, he’ll throw it across the table, and you’ve got Michelle Rodriguez to knock it out of the park. [...] That’s what we rolled into set with, the idea that if we were having a good time, if we were being creative, if we were inhabiting this world in that spirit of fun, that’s what we wanted to come out of the screen at you.”
At the moment, Page is the epitome of the posh leading man. After breaking out as the much-desired Simon Basset on Netflix’s Bridgerton, the 34-year-old English-Zimbabwean actor was immediately picked up to star alongside Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans in The Gray Man, then thrown into the speculation ring as an obvious pick for a James Bond reboot. His Honor Among Thieves
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