Actors demand action over 'disgusting' video game sex scenes
www.bbc.com
They say the scenes, which they often don't know about in advance, leave them "shaken" and "upset."
  • coyotino [he/him]OPEnglish
    154•3 months ago

    Just in case you skip to the comments: the complaint is that actors are not being told anything about what game they are working on or what kind of scenes they will be doing. Then, they show up to the studio and they are asked to do explicit sex scenes or sexual assault scenes day-of with little warning or time to consider whether they are comfortable with that.

    • atro_city
      40•3 months ago

      What a shitty title to the article. It should be “Actors demand action over unanticipated video game sex (and rape) scenes”. Especially if the actor may be a rape survivor, asking them to act that out without any warning is idiotic at best and harmful at worst.

    • MentalEdge
      79•3 months ago

      …

      Ok yeah that’s really fucking uncool.

      There are absolutely actors who are down to do that stuff but you can’t hire people with a script sight-unseen and just drop stuff on them that might straight up give some people a panic attack to even think about, let alone re-enact.

      Title makes you think there are actors who don’t want games in general to contain explicit adult content, but this is 100% reasonable, and yet another reason voice actors and game industry workers need to unionize.

      I bet your ass the same shit is happening with asset creators and animators.

      • Björn Tantau
        16•3 months ago

        I think they actually are unionized. At least in the UK. That’s what some of the Baldur’s Gate 3 actors said when asked about the anti AI strikes. They can’t participate because of the rules of their union.

        If I recall correctly there is even a sentence in the article about the British union starting to tackle this issue.

        • MentalEdge
          14•3 months ago

          In some countries, some people, in some parts of the industry, are unionized. It’s not even close to being the norm. It’s only slowly starting to happen.