Mass Effect Cast Interview, Part Three
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Retroplayer- Mark, you've also worked alongside Bioware on Dragon Age: Origins in which you play a number of villains. What was it like playing characters that are pretty much the complete opposite of Commander Shepard?
Mark Meer (Commander Shepard)- Well, keep in mind there are probably some EXTREMELY ruthless versions of Shepard out there. I do enjoy playing villains, though -- especially monsters. I got to be several Werewolves in Dragon Age: Origins and all of the talking Darkspawn in Dragon Age: Awakenings, which was fun. And in ME2, I'm any Vorcha you meet -- the day we recorded that, I spent the whole day screeching and gibbering in the booth. Also fun. Now that I think of it, before Shepard, I almost exclusively played villains or creatures, with the occasional non-hostile NPC thrown into the mix.
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Retroplayer- As an actor how did you tackle the story arc where Samara must track down and kill her own daughter?
Maggie Baird (Samara)- That was kind of intense. I am a mom so I had to pretty much leave my own feelings out of it. They played me tracks of my daughter though and I heard her in the scene we did together and she did seem pretty horrible so that made it easier.
