Maggie Robertson Interview: Fans Ask Me To Draw Poop For Tattoos
Breakout stars aren't usually 'a thing' in video games. Far too much work goes unrecognised, and some even goes completely uncredited, for a star to emerge from out of nowhere. The only names we tend to associate with any given video game would be the auteur directors like Hideo Kojima, or the established actors like Troy Baker or Laura Bailey. For most games, we don't associate any individual human being with them at all, which is probably why most gamers lack any real knowledge about crunch, workplace mismanagement, and industry burnout. While movies are made by movie stars, video games just fall into our laps. If ever video games has had a breakout star though, Maggie Robertson was it.
Robertson shot to fame after playing Lady Dimitrescu in Resident Evil Village, a character whose popularity exploded right from the first trailer and has continued to endure even as the game has faded from the public conversation. I interviewed Robertson as Village launched, and she explained the sensation of being swept up in fandom for the first time. Dimitrescu was Robertson's first video game role, and her first gig of any kind after she moved to LA to pursue acting as a career. Almost a year on, she's picked up major wins for her role as the Big Lady, including Best Performance at The Game Awards. I caught up with her again before the BAFTAs, where she was nominated for Best Supporting Performance.
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"It all still feels very surreal," she says. "I'm nominated for a BAFTA Award for my very first video game experience, the very first video game I ever worked on, has led me here and it's really surreal. Very much feels like the stars aligning, and I was just in the right place at
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