Troy Baker has voiced a number of the biggest online game characters of all time. Not even together with taking up Harrison Ford’s position as Indy in Indiana Jones and the Nice Circle, he additionally has performed Sam Drake in Uncharted, Booker DeWitt in Bioshock: Infinite, Higgs in Demise Stranding, and naturally, Joel Miller in The Last of Us.
Throughout a panel at GalaxyCon New Orleans earlier this month, Baker was requested if enjoying Joel had affected him personally. He mentioned it had really affected him “deeply” in many various methods, together with feeling “woefully unprepared” for the half.
“There’s nothing worse, and I hope that nobody ever feels this, however do you ever present as much as one thing and go ‘I’m so woefully unprepared for this’? And, it isn’t impostor syndrome, it is a truth,” he mentioned. “You aren’t geared up to do the factor that you’re about to do. You possibly can be like, ‘let’s go bungee leaping!’, and then you definately get on the platform and also you go, ‘I am unable to do that’. That was The Last of Us for me. You get the gig, and then you definately go, ‘oh no, I’ve to ship this’.”
Baker remembered at one level speaking with co-star Ashley Johnson, who performs Ellie within the video games, and coming to an nearly horrifying realization. He turned to Johnson and mentioned: “‘Do you notice that if this factor sucks, it is our fault?'”
He gave credit score to Naughty Canine, who already had nice success with its Uncharted sequence, and knew the kind of story it needed to inform subsequent. “We knew that what they had been going to make was going to be good,” he mentioned, including that degree of storytelling taught him be a greater actor.
“It taught me cease attempting to persuade folks that I might act, and simply notice that Joel has no concept that he is in a recreation, and he is simply in a second in his life. And, I took that lesson, and I utilized all of it the best way throughout.”
Most just lately, Baker reprised the position of Higgs in Demise Stranding 2, which was launched this month. July additionally noticed the announcement that Baker will voice Jack Pepper, the protagonist of Mouse: P.I. for Rent.