Star Wars: Episode VII actor fired from Dante's Inferno

EA ditched the actor about to star in The Force Awakens.
Text: Petter Hegevall
Published 2015-12-16

Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens is about to take over cinemas across the galaxy, and the hype here in the office has reached epic proportions.

One of the main roles in the film is played by Ex Machina-star Oscar Isaac (Inside Llewyn Davis, Body of Lies) and a newly released interview with Birth Movies Death has Isaac reveal that he had on a previous occasion been fired as a voice actor working on EA title Dante's Inferno. Here's the transcript:

Was that your first time doing voice over?
Oscar Isaac: - I had done a video game before, but I got fired.

How Come?
- I think they just thought I was bad. It was such a shitty game, though. Dante's Inferno.

That is a really bad game.
- Terrible.

You dodged a bullet there.
- I had no choice. It was a Force dodge.

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