Lev Chapelsky Interview

If you're interested in learning more about how video game developers seek out Hollywood talent to voice their characters, then the new interview with Blindlight general manager Lev Chapelsky on Edge Online is for you. This one is pretty crazy:
Have you worked with figures that aren't in the acting world?

Celebrity acquisition applies not just to celebrity actors but to sports figures, politicians we've made offers to Bill Clinton for videogames and gotten great responses with attorneys who have said, '˜The former president will not participate in one of your videogame products, thank you very much'. We appreciated that frankness and candour you don't get that kind of candour from Creative Artists Agency, frankly. If the answers no, they don't return your call for six months.

What project did you ask Bill Clinton for?

I think that might have been to play the president in Fallout 3. Wouldn't that have been brilliant? You get to that point in game and you hear that voice in the ether coming from off-camera and you're like, '˜I know that guy!'
Using someone who simply sounds like Bill Clinton would have been far cheaper and - most likely - funnier. If that was what they were going for, anyway.

Thanks, NMA.