If you’re a 90s baby like myself you were blessed to purchase the original PS1 and most likely got it with Spyro, Crash Bandicoot and Twisted Metal. Twisted Metal was all action, all chaos, and now it's a series starring Anthony Mackie, Neve Campbell and Stephanie Beatriz.
We sat down with our main hero Anthony Mackie to discuss what fans should expect from this new series.
Anthony, I know you’ve had experience with video game roles in the past but this one is very different, how do you prepare for a role in a game that doesn’t really have a blueprint?
Well, this role was really different because it was more about the world that we were creating and the content that we were placing inside of it. I didn't have to research the game at all. I've known Twisted Metal my entire life and I played it as a kid, however, I sucked at it and never won a battle.
I was pretty familiar with the game but this was more about John Doe and creating who I wanted him to be and how I wanted him to exist in this world that we were putting together. How naive can I make him, that you don't feel sorry for him, and think he's dumb? Because that's a very fine line you have to walk. It's like, “oh this guy's an idiot” as opposed to “this guy is so cute I just wanna hold him and make sure he's OK.”. There's a childish boyish aspect to him that I wanted to capture because the audience is basically John Doe's copilot. He's experiencing a lot of this world for the first time, just like the audience. Every time he experiences something new so does the audience. We're going on this journey together.
