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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Gustave voice actor, Daredevil star, and man who does not own a PS5 Charlie Cox has only a vague idea of the French JRPG's tremendous success. Instead of giving him so much credit for bringing Gustave to life, he'd rather you congratulate performance capture actor Maxence Cazorla. But, keeping the ferris wheel of praise turning, Cazorla seems to prefer that he and Cox both take responsibility for the tenacious protagonist, like two proud parents.
"Thank you for all the messages these past few days," Cazorla writes on Twitter November 25, not long after Cox humbly addressed his Best Performance nomination at the forthcoming Game Awards. Cox said that, while he was "thrilled" to be considered, "There's an amazing French actor by the name of Maxence Cazorla who did almost all of the motion capture for that role in that game. So any nomination or any credit I get, I really have to give to him, because I believe that the performance of that character is really down to him, and my voice was just part of that process."
Cazorla certainly deserves celebration – in addition to providing motion capture for Gustave, the actor also performed as antihero Verso and pure evil Renoir. Then, he was the voice of Esquie, the legendary smiley face. Many of Clair Obscur's achievements are his, too.
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Ashley BardhanSenior WriterAshley is a Senior Writer at GamesRadar+. She's been a staff writer at Kotaku and Inverse, too, and she's written freelance pieces about horror and women in games for sites like Rolling Stone, Vulture, IGN, and Polygon. When she's not covering gaming news, she's usually working on expanding her doll collection while watching Saw movies one through 11.
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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Gustave actor Charlie Cox is "thrilled" about his Game Awards nomination, but insists "any credit I get" should go to his character's motion capture actor instead
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 actor Ben Starr can "sympathize" with Daredevil lead Charlie Cox's bewilderment over the French JRPG's success, because he "didn't expect it to be this big" either
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Verso actor thanks fan fic writers for "taking very specific license with this classic masterpiece" – "We see you, we hear you, we appreciate how detailed you can truly get"
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's Verso actor prefers Maelle's ending to his own "because I really like my acting in it" – "choose the Maelle ending and you'll see why I won this award"
The Witcher legend Doug Cockle agrees "there's so many great games this year," but Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is the highlight: "It's such a beautifully written game, and beautifully conceived and achieved"
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 actors have also been in other hits like Baldur's Gate 3 and Final Fantasy 16, but assure "we're going to be a part of some absolute stinkers, too"
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