Apex Legends actor reveals just how secretive Respawn was before release Apex Legends voice actor Erica Luttrell, who plays veteran soldier Bangalore in Respawn\u2019s battle royale, has revealed just how much secrecy went into the game\u2019s development ahead of its surprise release in February this year. Luttrell was one of the original voice actors brought into the development of Respawn\u2019s first-ever battle royale release, and saw first-hand how closely guarded the secrets of the game were by both the developers, and publisher EA. Luttrell, who recounted her experiences with creating the character of Anita \u201cBanglore\u201d Williams to fellow Apex voice actor Chris Edgerly in his Edgevoice podcast, revealed she would get \u201ccoded messages\u201d from Respawn. After auditioning for the role, and successfully being brought on board, Luttrell soon discovered just how quiet the whole game was being kept\u2014a decision Respawn and EA stuck to all the way to their shock February, 2019 release. Not only was the Bangalore actor asked to record all of her early voice lines in her own studio, which for a time consisted of \u201ca closet studio with a phone recorder,\u201d and send them back through audio transfers, she was also given most of Bangalore\u2019s information in secret codes and jumbled messages. \u201cAll of the information was sent to us in packages with coded names, the names of the characters were jumbled and different, and I basically just knew that I was playing a military character, so I had to choose a voice off a few clues,\u201d she said. \u201cRecently I got a studio-quality mic and I do lines on that now, but for a time it was just off the phone and with a small setup. I was using an Apogee MiC, before upgrading after the Apex recordings. I\u2019m not a sound engineer.\u201d Despite not hearing many details about the game itself, or how her voice lines would eventually be used, Luttrell admitted she \u201chad a feeling\u201d the game was going to be big: a premonition that has clearly come true 10 months down the line. \u201cI still don\u2019t really understand the scope of the game, because I didn\u2019t really have much exposure to it when I was learning the character and recording, but I did think that it was going to be this big,\u201d she said. \u201cI don\u2019t think there\u2019s really a way to know [when you\u2019re working]. You don\u2019t ever really know, you have no sense. With video games especially, you sign NDAs (non-disclosure agreements) and you can\u2019t talk about it with people. \u201cThere were a few stages where I didn\u2019t even know what I was really doing, on a grand scale, I had a half-page for my character and that was really all I had to go off for what it was going to be like. Even that wasn\u2019t much to go off.\u201d Despite not playing the game itself\u2014Luttrell admits she doesn\u2019t have time for competitive gaming\u2014the voice behind Bangalore revealed she\u2019s had a \u201cgreat response\u201d from those who have become involved with the battle royale. \u201cPeople are always pretty keen to tell me that they\u2019re happy I look the same as Bangalore, though I hope I\u2019m a little bit more chipper than her,\u201d she said. \u201cLike I said though, there was no idea of how big the game was going to be, and I feel like even the developers and creators really had an idea of what they had on their hands. Now it\u2019s this bigger thing than I think any really expected.\u201d Read: Incredible Bangalore skin idea works perfectly with her military roots And, although she\u2019s never really stepped foot in the blood-soaked virtual worlds of King\u2019s Canyon or World\u2019s Edge, and has no interest in connecting to Apex\u2019s full lore, Luttrell admits she does have a \u201cdeep connection\u201d with Bangalore herself. \u201cI don\u2019t want to be too invested in the world, I want to be invested in the character I\u2019m playing,\u201d she said. \u201cKnowing too much impedes your ability to do the work, I think. I don\u2019t want to be a fan of the game, I want to be a fan of Bangalore.\u201d Like Luttrell said though, Apex has already exploded in popularity, perhaps more than even Respawn expected. The title is already preparing for its fourth season, another new Legend, and many more LTMs and events on the horizon. Now, it seems, it may take a little push for Luttrell to jump into a game with Edgerly and the rest of her fellow voice actors. Maybe that would be a great spectacle for Respawn to organize now that they\u2019re being a little less secretive about the voice stars at the core of the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Apex Legends actor reveals just how secretive Respawn was before release Apex Legends voice actor Erica Luttrell, who plays veteran soldier Bangalore in Respawn\u2019s battle royale, has revealed just how much secrecy went into the game\u2019s development ahead of its surprise release in February this year. Luttrell was one of the original voice actors brought […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}