Archive·United Press International (UPI)·June 2005·Quoted as EVP, 1st Approach
Actors spar over video-game voices
The Screen Actors Guild rejected a pay deal for video-game voice work that its sister union AFTRA had accepted; Jeff was quoted arguing that star voices make a game feel cool but don't move sales, which depend on gameplay.
craft … and if you believe in those characters on the screen, it helps
totally cool
The original cast of a blockbuster, such as “The Matrix,” might play a role in the video game as well, but whether or not the game becomes a hit ultimately depends on its action quality, rather than on any secondary factor such as the voice behind a character, Greenfield said.
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