Bill Clinton was approached to voice Fallout 3's president

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This is pretty far out of the left field, from a Lev Chapelsky interview on Edge Online (the interview itself is about how poverty-stricken actors and film production workers are forced to flee to the gaming industry).<blockquote>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!’

It was worth a try!

Exactly. And that’s always our attitude with celebrities, that you’ve got about a point zero zero one per cent chance of that one, but fuck, it’s worth a try. We might get the offer in on a day that they’ve got a wild hare up their ass because they just had great sex the night before and they feel like they’re on top of the world and they want to try something new. We do a lot of that.</blockquote>
 
I think DexterMorgan was being sarcastic.

That said, it would so fit Bethesda's MO. It makes no sense, he's not an actor or voice-actor and we have no reason to assume he could be up for the job. But it'd be SO COOL.

Just like the hiring of Odette Yustman. Sense from a VO-perspective? Zero. Or wait!
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OMFG we gotta get her to do VO work for Fallout 3 just look at those...oodles of talent!

Seriously, Bethesda's VO department is a joke. Has been for some time.
 
Brother None said:
Seriously, Bethesda's VO department is a joke. Has been for some time.
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I don't think they could care any less about that. They hire a few known names to help their marketing campaign and the rest is a piece of cake, since they don't meet any resistance, in a form of critics, from the media, or their target audience.

Now that i think of it, i can barely recall any developer/publisher that can get away with the stuff that bethesda get's away. :roll:
 
Why would you hire somebody like Clinton when you could hire an impersonator who would be far funnier and vastly cheaper?
Obviously the sales spike ad PR from hiring somebody like that would be a boon, but again in typical Bethsda fashion the need for attention and sales put the actual game quality and cohesiveness in the backseat.

And even a slick backwoods hillbilly mofo like Clinton has some standards, well expcept for that Paula Jones thing...
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We might get the offer in on a day that they’ve got a wild hare up their ass because they just had great sex the night before and they feel like they’re on top of the world and they want to try something new. We do a lot of that.
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Ohhhhh.. so that's how they recruited Ron Perlman :)
 
mm85 said:
We might get the offer in on a day that they’ve got a wild hare up their ass because they just had great sex the night before and they feel like they’re on top of the world and they want to try something new. We do a lot of that.
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Ohhhhh.. so that's how they recruited Ron Perlman :)
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Actually they met Ron Pearlman through wild sex.
 
One morning

Ron Perlman, wakes up naked in some hotel bed with a tremendous hangover.

Ron "Ooooooh, I really should have laid of the booze after that fifth glass last night."

Looks around where he is and discovers he is naked.
Suddenly we see the person next to Ron pull of the sheet and blankets of his face.
We see Pete, similar buck naked like Ron, as he moans because of his hangover Ron turns around wide eyed.

Pete "Ehh, howdy?"

A scream follows on such a high pitch that only dogs can hear it.
 
Cimmerian Nights said:
And even a slick backwoods hillbilly mofo like Clinton has some standards, well expcept for that Paula Jones thing...
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Not as backwoods hillbilly as you think. Dude's a Rockefeller by blood. Still vile, but not who he pretends to be.
 
Ixyroth said:
Cimmerian Nights said:
And even a slick backwoods hillbilly mofo like Clinton has some standards, well expcept for that Paula Jones thing...
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Not as backwoods hillbilly as you think. Dude's a Rockefeller by blood. Still vile, but not who he pretends to be.
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Rhodes Scholar as well... I had not moved to the US when he was in office so I never paid much attention to him but in retrospect he was an astute corporatist who loves dealing with shady characters. His Hillbilly attitude has to be at least a little bit cultivated, not like Bush's lobotomized earnestness (although I hear he was articulate as a governor, who knows).
 
lugaru said:
Rhodes Scholar as well... I had not moved to the US when he was in office so I never paid much attention to him but in retrospect he was an astute corporatist who loves dealing with shady characters. His Hillbilly attitude has to be at least a little bit cultivated, not like Bush's lobotomized earnestness (although I hear he was articulate as a governor, who knows).
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Yeah, one thing that Clinton wasn't was stupid. Being from Arkansas allowed him to play a far less intelligent character but he would surprise people from time to time (the "definition of is" response to the loaded question was a nice lawyer trick which stumped the reporter).

I find it hilarious that they went after him and it's amusing that they confirm that they look for celebrities rather than talent. I'm with Cimmerian, if I wanted a Bill Clinton voice I'd hire an impersonator (hopefully a voice talent who can do Clinton's voice amongst others).
 
UncannyGarlic said:
lugaru said:
Rhodes Scholar as well... I had not moved to the US when he was in office so I never paid much attention to him but in retrospect he was an astute corporatist who loves dealing with shady characters. His Hillbilly attitude has to be at least a little bit cultivated, not like Bush's lobotomized earnestness (although I hear he was articulate as a governor, who knows).
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Yeah, one thing that Clinton wasn't was stupid. Being from Arkansas allowed him to play a far less intelligent character but he would surprise people from time to time (the "definition of is" response to the loaded question was a nice lawyer trick which stumped the reporter).

I find it hilarious that they went after him and it's amusing that they confirm that they look for celebrities rather than talent. I'm with Cimmerian, if I wanted a Bill Clinton voice I'd hire an impersonator (hopefully a voice talent who can do Clinton's voice amongst others).
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There must be a thousand comedians itching to dust off their Clinton voice now that he is not as relevant. I actually really like Malcom McDowell presidential performance though, so thank god they where not able to go with the crazier Clinton casting.
 
UncannyGarlic said:
I find it hilarious that they went after him and it's amusing that they confirm that they look for celebrities rather than talent. I'm with Cimmerian, if I wanted a Bill Clinton voice I'd hire an impersonator (hopefully a voice talent who can do Clinton's voice amongst others).
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Yeah, look at how great the Nixon character is on Futurama. It's VO, so it's got to be real over-the-top to be effective IMO, no one is going to argue that Liam Neeson is a bad actor, but for VO he is way to understated and subtle.

And while I do realise that the Office of the POTUS has lost some of it's luster and prestige beginning with the Nixon era, and that Clinton is making a killing getting paid for speaking engagements. I really hope we don't see an era forthcoming where Presidents do cheesey video game VO and car commercials and shit. Come one now. Next they'll be selling oval office shit on Ebay after they leave office. Well, if it balanced the friggin budget I could get behind it.

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I don't think I ever said Clinton was dumb, just unsophisticated - I mean Kennedy got M. Monroe, Clinton got rebuffed by some low level trailer trash bureaucrat for dropping trow in front of her.
But what do I know, I'm just an east coast elitist. :whistle:
 
Good lord, that would've been horrible! Malcolm McDowell as Eden was one of the good things about Fallout 3, I loved listening to his rants on the Enclave radio. A shame they didn't give him a better role though, he could've gotten more lines.
 
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