{"id":1582811,"date":"2026-05-18T19:02:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T19:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eXU4UgutHbUfwqMWgoqjz4"},"modified":"2026-05-18T19:02:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T19:02:44","slug":"before-landing-the-lead-role-in-assassins-creed-black-flag-star-matt-ryan-actually-thought-he-was-auditioning-for-a-pirate-tv-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/before-landing-the-lead-role-in-assassins-creed-black-flag-star-matt-ryan-actually-thought-he-was-auditioning-for-a-pirate-tv-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Before landing the lead role in Assassin&#8217;s Creed: Black Flag, star Matt Ryan actually thought he was auditioning for a pirate TV show"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>In a not-so-alternate alternate timeline, actor Matt Ryan may well have ended up playing a growling, sweaty pirate on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/their-anger-is-righteous-and-perfect-the-destruction-of-charles-town-is-the-best-bit-of-black-sails\/\" target=\"_blank\">Black Sails<\/a>, the improbably stellar 2014 TV series prequel to Robert Louis Stevenson&#8217;s classic novel Treasure Island. He would&#8217;ve been a good fit for it. But in this reality, he instead ended up playing the lead role of a pirate in 2013&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/assassins-creed\/black-flag-resynced-guide\/\" target=\"_blank\">Assassin&#8217;s Creed 4: Black <em>Flag<\/em><\/a>, his first and so far only videogame credit.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with PC Gamer, Ryan said he ended up loving the experience of acting for a game\u2014even though when he auditioned for the role, it was actually masquerading as a show to keep the Assassin&#8217;s Creed sequel a secret.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was pitched to me via my agent as a pirate TV show,&#8221; he remembered. &#8220;Amy Hubbard, a great casting director in the UK, got me into the room, and then they liked me. They asked me for a callback, and then they leveled with me. They were like, listen: this is a videogame. They said it was an Assassin&#8217;s Creed, and I&#8217;d played the first one, so I was like &#8216;great, that&#8217;s a cool game.&#8217; But I didn&#8217;t think it was mocap\u2014so when it was mocap, I was over the moon. I get to <em>be<\/em> the character, in the body, you know?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ryan saw &#8220;all the seasons in Montreal&#8221; as he traveled back and forth from the UK and the Ubisoft studio where Black Flag was being developed. A year later he landed the role of John Constantine for a short-lived TV adaptation of the DC Comics series, which he&#8217;s returned to for a number of animated films.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure pull-right inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1000px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:133.30%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"tvZ8Uv7WDpoDpdZbVQw5Dd\" name=\"Constantine_TV_Series_poster\" alt=\"An advertisement for Matt Ryan's TV series Constantine\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/before-landing-the-lead-role-in-assassins-creed-black-flag-star-matt-ryan-actually-thought-he-was-auditioning-for-a-pirate-tv-show.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"right\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1333\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"pull-rightinline\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\"pull-right inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: NBC Universal)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It was early into his run as Constantine that Ryan discovered how beloved a character Edward Kenway had become.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I did my first Comic-Con, and that&#8217;s when people would be coming up dressed as Constantine,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And then there&#8217;d be all these Edward Kenways in line. I&#8217;d be like, oh, this is great. I knew it was a good game, because I played it, but it was around then that I started getting a sense for the fandom of the character, and seeing the amount of work they put into designing those costumes\u2014some would take a year to build the costume, you know? They&#8217;d be coming to me and quoting their favorite lines.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You know, as an actor, if you do a play, it&#8217;s one performance it&#8217;s gone, and there is something kind of wonderful about a performance that&#8217;s fleeting. And with TV and movies, people watch it once, maybe twice if you&#8217;re lucky, so they spend a bit of time with you. But with a videogame, they spend a <em>lot<\/em> of time with you\u2026 It&#8217;s been really, really nice after all these years to be invited back to this role, and to feel that this character is as beloved as it is.&#8221; <\/p>\n<div class=\"product\"><a data-dimension112=\"7973c63d-bad5-4c55-87ec-76868555f9bb\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2026 games\" data-dimension48=\"2026 games\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:661px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:98.94%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"6offQUY4CXebir2TC27dMd\" name=\"kingdom come 2 square\" caption=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/before-landing-the-lead-role-in-assassins-creed-black-flag-star-matt-ryan-actually-thought-he-was-auditioning-for-a-pirate-tv-show-1.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"661\" height=\"654\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" credit=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/new-pc-games-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-dimension112=\"7973c63d-bad5-4c55-87ec-76868555f9bb\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2026 games\" data-dimension48=\"2026 games\" data-dimension25=\"\"><strong>2026 games<\/strong><\/a>: All the upcoming games<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Our all-time favorites<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-50-best-free-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Free PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Freebie fest<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-fps-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best FPS games<\/strong><\/a>: Finest gunplay<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-rpgs-of-all-time\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best RPGs<\/strong><\/a>: Grand adventures<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-co-op-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best co-op games<\/strong><\/a>: Better together<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/assassins-creed\/before-landing-the-lead-role-in-assassins-creed-black-flag-star-matt-ryan-actually-thought-he-was-auditioning-for-a-pirate-tv-show\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a not-so-alternate alternate timeline, actor Matt Ryan may well have ended up playing a growling, sweaty pirate on Black Sails, the improbably stellar 2014 TV series prequel to Robert Louis Stevenson&#8217;s classic novel Treasure Island. He would&#8217;ve been a good fit for it. But in this reality, he instead ended up playing the lead role of a pirate in 2013&#8217;s Assassin&#8217;s Creed 4: Black Flag, his first and so far only videogame credit. In an interview with PC Gamer, Ryan said he ended up loving the experience of acting for a game\u2014even though when he auditioned for the role, it was actually masquerading as a show to keep the Assassin&#8217;s Creed sequel a secret. &#8220;It was pitched to me via my agent as a&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/before-landing-the-lead-role-in-assassins-creed-black-flag-star-matt-ryan-actually-thought-he-was-auditioning-for-a-pirate-tv-show\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1582812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[23,296,748],"class_list":["post-1582811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc-gamer","tag-action","tag-assassins-creed","tag-games"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with 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