Jason Isaacs was hooked on Tetris and hasn't played games since
radiotimes.comJason Isaacs — the stalwart British actor that you'll recognise from roles in Harry Potter, Star Trek Discovery, The Death of Stalin and more — doesn't play video games, due to the fact that he was previously obsessed with Tetris.
This hasn't stopped Isaacs from appearing in loads of games as a voice actor, though, including this year's darkly comic indie The Last Worker and the upcoming Baldur's Gate 3.
He also featured in Marvel's Midnight Suns in recent memory, and he provided a lot of voice work for the original SimCity back in the day.
At an event in London earlier this year, where Isaacs was promoting his work on The Last Worker, the actor told RadioTimes.com exclusively about his relationship with gaming. Or lack thereof! See what he said in the video above.
«I'm very addictive,» Isaacs explained. «I've always been an addictive person. So I don't play video games. Because when I did, I was one of these people that played Tetris and dreamt shapes.
»I dreamt blocks. I saw blocks, not just when I was sleeping, but in my daily life. I knew I had to stop when I was looking at people, imagining how I could turn their background into shapes that fitted into the available space."
Isaacs added: «And so I didn't need explaining to me, when the new waves of technology came along in the '90s, that it was designed in order to keep us from living our lives, because I had already experienced that.»
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All of that being said, Isaacs is still very in tune with technology.
He told us: «I'm an utter geek. I've been
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