Kratos Actor Chris Judge Claps Back at Amazon Exec's Gaming Dig | Push Square
Legendary Teal'c actor Chris Judge is not known for his restraint. However, in his starring role as God of War's modern Kratos, it seems he's learned how to control the Spartan rage within. When Amazon Games boss Christoph Hartmann made the outrageous allegation that video games «don't really have acting», Judge quickly set him to rights.
It all began when Hartmann spoke to IGN about the recent SAG-AFTRA strikes, with actors seeking additional protections against AI (thanks PSLS). The Amazon Games exec made some ill-advised comments for someone in his position, positing that video games «don't really have acting. The majority of the team sits in programming, and that's not going to go away because that's all about innovation.»
Judge apparently saw this take online and responded sardonically: «Thank goodness there's really no acting in video games—absolutely brilliant.» He then shared a clip of Ashley Johnson's performance during that most harrowing of all scenes in The Last of Us Part II, and it's hard not to see how silly Hartmann's assertion is. Beware of motion-capped spoilers in the clip below!
Judge and jury
«I'd like to thank...»
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Khayl Adam is Push Square's roving Australian correspondent, a reporter tasked with scouring the internet for the richest, most succulent PlayStation stories. With five years of experience as a freelance journalist and mercenary wordsmith, RPGs are his first great love, but strategy and tactics games are a close second, genres in which he is only too happy to specialize.
It's amazon. Judge shouldn't take their words seriously.
I’m surprised amazon hasn’t replaced all the their executives with a.i, I guess there’s the possibility the a.i could develop some form of basic decency; whereas the powers that be know a human executive will never develop that fault.
@Khayl «He then shared a clip of his and
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