{"id":1148120,"date":"2026-02-07T15:32:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T15:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/v32685gPiXPzid5QNpZ3xb"},"modified":"2026-02-07T15:32:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T15:32:15","slug":"mass-effects-jennifer-hale-who-played-femshep-saw-no-line-before-she-recorded-them-for-biowares-flagship-trilogy-it-was-all-cold-reading-on-the-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/mass-effects-jennifer-hale-who-played-femshep-saw-no-line-before-she-recorded-them-for-biowares-flagship-trilogy-it-was-all-cold-reading-on-the-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"Mass Effect&#8217;s Jennifer Hale, who played femshep, &#8216;saw no line&#8217; before she recorded them for Bioware&#8217;s flagship trilogy: &#8216;It was all cold reading on the spot&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>Voice acting has been an underestimated profession for a while now\u2014and, while things have certainly improved, there are new fights for voiceover artists to grapple with, like the knock-down, drag-out fight SAG-AFTRA is currently embroiled in <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/software\/ai\/8-months-into-their-strike-videogame-voice-actors-say-the-industrys-latest-proposal-is-filled-with-alarming-loopholes-that-will-leave-our-members-vulnerable-to-ai-abuse\/\">over AI<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why<a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/gaming-industry\/what-do-you-mean-real-actors-astarions-vo-who-shared-an-awards-category-with-idris-elba-after-baldurs-gate-3-remembers-the-dark-ages-of-mocap\/\"> Astarion&#8217;s voice actor<\/a>, Neil Newbon, has assembled a group of actors called the &#8216;Pixel Pack&#8217;, as revealed in an interview with <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/pixel-pack-meet-actors-changing-the-game-for-gaming-exclusive-11694425\" target=\"_blank\">Entertainment Weekly<\/a>. The full interview spans a few big-name talents like Matthew Mercer and Yuri Lowenthal, and is well worth a read\u2014though one quote from Mass Effect&#8217;s Jennifer Hale really stands as an example of how rough voice actors have had it.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re not aware, Hale voiced the female Commander Shepard\u2014often abbreviated to &#8216;femshep&#8217;\u2014making her the de facto protagonist of Bioware&#8217;s flagship trilogy, as well as the voice you hear the most throughout the game. However, as she reveals in the interview, she basically had to go in cold.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The work we do in games\u2014this does not cover performance capture but in voice capture\u2014is 85-90% cold reading,&#8221; Hale reveals. &#8220;The entirety of Mass Effect, I saw no line before the moment I recorded it. It was all cold reading on the spot. A couple takes, maybe a few, and it goes out to market. That&#8217;s it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I want to emphasise again that Hale wasn&#8217;t a bit part, a side-NPC, or someone doing random barks. She was the <em>protagonist<\/em>, the voice you&#8217;re going to be hearing for 99% of the game. And yet, for most of her line delivery, flinging about sci-fi technobabble, she had to stay on her toes and come up with something solid on the spot. That&#8217;s an absurd level of adaptability, even more so given the fact she did a stellar job.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s extraordinarily demanding,&#8221; Hale adds, and yet she also recalls moments in her career where she was treated like &#8220;the utensils on the table.&#8221; She recounts the 2010 Spike Video Game Awards, wherein she was invited and nominated for a category\u2014but wasn&#8217;t told until the end that the category winner had already been pre-recorded:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I waited and waited and waited for my category to be announced. I had a 6-month-old at home who I was still nursing. I really was watching the clock. I finally sought out the stage manager toward the end of the show. He goes, &#8216;What&#8217;s your category?&#8217; And I told him the category. He said, &#8216;Oh, we taped that earlier with the winner.&#8217; The dismissiveness of it\u2014definitely I felt that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/gaming-industry\/what-do-you-mean-real-actors-astarions-vo-who-shared-an-awards-category-with-idris-elba-after-baldurs-gate-3-remembers-the-dark-ages-of-mocap\/\">Newbon had a similar experience<\/a> circa 2012 where, despite having now shared a category with more &#8216;famous&#8217; film stars (and winning), his work was similarly disrespected. I&#8217;m staggered, but unfortunately not surprised\u2014despite videogames raking in more cash than <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/councils\/forbesagencycouncil\/2023\/11\/17\/the-gaming-industry-a-behemoth-with-unprecedented-global-reach\/\" target=\"_blank\">film and music combined<\/a>, it&#8217;s had a history of chronic disrespect. Both towards the games themselves, and the people like Hale and Newbon who bust their arses helping to make them. Good thing <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/asked-about-sag-aftras-strike-for-better-ai-protections-amazon-games-boss-claims-ai-has-nothing-to-do-with-taking-work-away-from-actors-because-for-games-we-dont-really-have-acting\/\">no-one&#8217;s disrespectful to videogame actors nowadays<\/a>, right? Haha. Ha. 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That&#8217;s why Astarion&#8217;s voice actor, Neil Newbon, has assembled a group of actors called the &#8216;Pixel Pack&#8217;, as revealed in an interview with Entertainment Weekly. The full interview spans a few big-name talents like Matthew Mercer and Yuri Lowenthal, and is well worth a read\u2014though one quote from Mass Effect&#8217;s Jennifer Hale really stands as an example of how rough voice actors have had it. 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