Final Fantasy 16 Clive actor has "loved everyone's reactions to the name"
British actor Ben Starr – who you might recognise from Netflix's You, Sky's Jamestown or any number of other productions – is playing the lead hero in Final Fantasy 16. And the name of this epic champion that players will guide through an action-packed adventure? That would be Clive.
Sections of the internet had a bit of a laugh when Starr's character – full name Clive Rosfield – was first named in public. Starr, however, already had a pre-existing relationship with the Final Fantasy series, coming to the project with a lot of love and nostalgia for the games that have come before.
«I am a big Final Fantasy fan,» Starr told RadioTimes.com at a preview event in London. «I've been playing the games since I was 10, I think. And I think Final Fantasy 8 was my first one ever played, and then obviously, I had to go back and play 7 and 9 and 6.»
The beauty of Final Fantasy is that each game generally features new characters and stories, making the order of play somewhat unimportant.
Starr remembers those games as «pushing boundaries» and says: «I think there was a time before Final Fantasy 8 for me, and a time afterwards, because I'd never experienced anything like it. You know, I'd been playing good games on the PlayStation. I'd been playing a lot of Anna Kournikova Smash Court Tennis. But there was nothing quite like it.»
Now Starr has grown up and landed himself a leading role in FF16. His audition story is «remarkable in how unremarkable it is».
Late on a Friday afternoon, he went along to read for a role in an unnamed fantasy RPG. He began performing a smaller part, speaking all of three lines before the director asked him to try reading for a different role. At that point, the character that would go on to become Clive
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