“I wanted the arc of Arthur Morgan to be something that hadn’t happened in Westerns before,” Clark says. Arthur Morgan, the lead character, has been taken under the guidance of Dutch van der Linde but, over the course of the game, Arthur begins to question Dutch’s noble outlaw act.
The camaraderie between the actors translates well to the game, which is important for a game where you spend hours on end with the characters travelling from place to place, with thousands of interactions between them. “The Irish characters have a really important function in the narrative, it was great to work with Irish people playing non-stereotypical characters,” Clark says. MacGuire is a lovable scoundrel, with a thick Dublin accent that could be captured only by an Irish actor. In the first Red Dead Redemption game, there was a character called “Irish”, who played a stereotypical Irishman with a hackneyed accent from a non-Irish speaker. In the camp, Sean MacGuire is played by Corkman Michael Mellamphy, while Wicklow woman Penny O'Brien plays the gang's leader Dutch van der Linde's love interest, Molly O'Shea. The Irish characters have a really important function in the narrative, it was great to work with Irish people playing non-stereotypical charactersĬlark is one of several Irish-related actors in a game where Irish feature prominently. Roger Clark took inspiration for Arthur Morgan from John Wayne. An avid player of the first Red Dead Redemption game, when he was asked to wear cowboy boots, he put two and two together about what he was getting himself into. “My Irish years had a huge impact on my life, I was maybe too young at the time to appreciate it.”Ĭlark left Ireland then to study drama in Glamorgan and picked up mainly theatre work with a company based out of Europe, before the opportunity for an upcoming Rockstar game came about. I subconsciously sped it up, so I didn’t stand out,” Clark says. “I had a thick American accent when I came over and all the kids picked on me for it, so I developed an Irish twang fairly quickly. He would spend all his formative teenage years in the west, completing his Leaving Certificate. As a child, he would go back to his mother’s hometown of Sligo every summer, and when his father retired, the family moved to just outside Sligo town when he was 12 years old. It was fascinating to have to say this line as an ***hole or a man with integrity and make that work.” BackgroundĬlark was born to an Irish mother and a second-generation Irish father in the US. With the honour system, the way you play the game directly affects the narrative. “No two players are going to play the game the same way. But that’s where comparison ends with the medium. “I guess it would be like a five or six season television show in terms of the volume of the script. “I can’t compare it to anything I’ve ever done,” says Clark, who had mainly worked in theatre before RDR2. The use of high-tech camera sensors now allows for the capture of more subtle facial expressions, allowing much greater depth to video game acting performances than ever before. Roger Clark as Arthur Morgan, the lead character in Rockstar’s hit video game Red Dead Redemption 2. It is well worth a watch.Everything in cut scenes and many of the game’s interactions happen this way, everything from jumping stunts, even to one of the characters Javier Escuela, played by Gabriel Sloyer, playing the guitar with the sensor balls on his fingers. The panel features Dutch van Der Linde actor Benjamin Byron Davis as well. Skip the following video to 16:30 to hear Clark’s incredible horse seduction skills: I was like, ‘What do you mean?’ Then he played it back.”Īfter hearing the recording back, the actor agreed they should redo the lines.
It sounds like you’re not talking to a horse’. I was like, ‘Why?’ He said, ‘Well, it’s a little too intimate. A couple of weeks later, I come back in and one of our wonderful assistant directors, Gethin Aldous, says, ‘Rog, we gotta do those horse lines again’. It was, you know, is Arthur’s horse a mare or a stallion? Then there’s different dialogue if you have a level four bonding than if you have a level one bonding – you’re not quite as affectionate, etcetera. “I think I spent about two days in the booth doing that stuff. “A lot of the horse stuff was actually voice acting,” Arthur Morgan actor Roger Clark said during a recent MomoCon panel.
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