Jason Isaacs on his "clearly insane" new game, The Last Worker

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Jason Isaacs plays a malfunctioning Liverpudlian robot in The Last Worker, a new game that parodies massive companies like Amazon while focusing on the sole human employee. It's set in a grim fulfilment centre where packages are sorted and deranged machines run riot.

With the game launching on Thursday 30th March for PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, PC and VR, we caught up with Isaacs to talk about his unusual role in the project that he describes as «clearly insane».

Isaacs, of course, is a screen icon at this point, having appeared in the Harry Potter films, Star Trek Discovery, The Death of Stalin and countless other memorable projects. But how did he end up attached to this particularly interesting one?

As you can see in the video above, Isaacs himself remembers it like so: «Jörg [Tittel], the creator and mad genius at the heart of it all, and I were going to do a movie and then the pandemic came.

»And then we are still going to do various other things, but he was just firing off in every direction when he told me about this clearly insane and unrealisable idea about a game, which didn't seem like any game I'd ever heard of."

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Isaacs recalls: «He told me the rough story of it, and I thought, 'Well, you're clearly going at the richest man in the world, and that's not the boat I want to be in'. But he did. And you can buy it through all of the various tech companies that the game itself attacks.»

He is well known for many of his villainous roles on screen, but was Isaacs pleased or surprised to be playing