Actors demand action over 'disgusting' video game sex scenes
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They say the scenes, which they often don't know about in advance, leave them "shaken" and "upset."
  • coyotino [he/him]OPEnglish
    152•3 months ago

    Just in case you skip to the comments: the complaint is that actors are not being told anything about what game they are working on or what kind of scenes they will be doing. Then, they show up to the studio and they are asked to do explicit sex scenes or sexual assault scenes day-of with little warning or time to consider whether they are comfortable with that.

    • MentalEdge
      77•3 months ago

      …

      Ok yeah that’s really fucking uncool.

      There are absolutely actors who are down to do that stuff but you can’t hire people with a script sight-unseen and just drop stuff on them that might straight up give some people a panic attack to even think about, let alone re-enact.

      Title makes you think there are actors who don’t want games in general to contain explicit adult content, but this is 100% reasonable, and yet another reason voice actors and game industry workers need to unionize.

      I bet your ass the same shit is happening with asset creators and animators.

      • Björn Tantau
        16•3 months ago

        I think they actually are unionized. At least in the UK. That’s what some of the Baldur’s Gate 3 actors said when asked about the anti AI strikes. They can’t participate because of the rules of their union.

        If I recall correctly there is even a sentence in the article about the British union starting to tackle this issue.

        • MentalEdge
          14•3 months ago

          In some countries, some people, in some parts of the industry, are unionized. It’s not even close to being the norm. It’s only slowly starting to happen.

    • atro_city
      39•3 months ago

      What a shitty title to the article. It should be “Actors demand action over unanticipated video game sex (and rape) scenes”. Especially if the actor may be a rape survivor, asking them to act that out without any warning is idiotic at best and harmful at worst.

  • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝English
    32•3 months ago

    “I turned up and was told what I would be filming would be a graphic rape scene,” she said.

    "This act could be watched for as long or as little time as the player wanted through a window, and then a player would be able to shoot this character in the head.

    What game is this even? I mean, why would any game need a graphic rape scene? Who is this going to sell to?

    Don’t video games outside of Japan try to avoid getting AO rated any more?

    • @pop@lemmy.ml
      18•3 months ago

      Why do games even need actors to do rape scenes? I know games do motion capture and such but rape scenes? Just make 3D models and go wild.

      Something’s definitely fishy.

      • JulianEnglish
        17•3 months ago

        I mean, that’s not cruelty free. Someone’s still gotta animate that. And most good animators either act scenes out beforehand and/or use reference footage.

    • comicallycluttered
      13•3 months ago

      What game is this even? I mean, why would any game need a graphic rape scene? Who is this going to sell to?

      Don’t video games outside of Japan try to avoid getting AO rated any more?

      Sounds like some typical David Cage bullshit. Wouldn’t be surprised at all if it was one of his games.

      Edit: Considering the content of the games, and looking over her IMDb credits, it was very likely one of The Dark Pictures Anthology games, which was actually my second guess after David Cage (well, those or Until Dawn; same developers) due to some of the weird shit Supermassive Games add in for “shock value” because “horror”.

      No surprise that she suddenly stopped working with them after House of Ashes, so that was probably the game in question, if I had to guess by context here.

      There are only a handful of studios that’ll throw that kind of shit in their games. Quantic Dream and Supermassive are always the most likely culprits.