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Neil Newbon tried to brute-force his way into Baldur’s Gate 3 by auditioning for anything (and almost everything), and it worked
Neil Newbon was so desperate to be in Baldur’s Gate 3 that he auditioned for 12 different parts before being cast as Astarion
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What would you do if you were a voice actor and you had the chance to try out for your favorite video game? You would enthusiastically audition. Or, if you’re Neil Newbon, you would audition 12 times. After all, it doesn’t matter which part you get, as long as you get to be in Baldur’s Gate 3.
“Someone mentioned that there’s a game that’s going around for an audition. So, I got it, and they called it a name which was actually like a Warhammer name,” Neil Bewborn says during a Baldur’s Gate 3 spotlight panel at MCM London Comic Con 2022. “I immediately looked at the races that we could audition for, and I was like, that’s not Warhammer, that’s fucking Dungeons & Dragons. I think I know exactly what fucking game this is.”
“I knew what it was, or at least I thought I knew what it was, so I ended up auditioning for 12 different parts because I had to get something. A gnome, anything. I’ll take whatever you have. Whatever you give me.”
Newbon was cast as Astarion, but he revealed some of the other roles he read for.
“Tiefling, halfling, a gnome, a high elf, a half-elf, a dwarf, a human, several different types of humans, I believe possibly an orc, and maybe a spider thing.”
For more on Baldur’s Gate 3, check out the complete panel video below:
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