Hollywood actor James McAvoy gave an interview to the publication Forbes about working on the game Twelve minutes, in which he also talked about his acquaintance with role-playing action The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion… As it turned out, excessive enthusiasm for the latter had a detrimental effect on the artist’s creative activity.
Star “X-Men” and “Split“said that in 2007, when he participated in the filming of the film”Jane Austen“, one of the partners on the site gave him a console Xbox 360 along with The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion CD. According to him, since childhood, he loved fantasy role-playing games like The legend of zelda and Secret of mana…
But soon James McAvoy found out for himself that his work and immersion in the huge fantasy worlds of video games are extremely poorly combined with each other. Due to his passionate pastime for the Bethesda project, the actor went to bed late, sometimes staying up until four in the morning.
“So I’m in Dublin. I have to go to bed at 10:00 pm because I get up at 6:00 am and I also have to learn a bunch of dialogues and stuff. But instead I stay awake until 4:00 am because I play Oblivion.” And I thought: “This game will definitely send me to Oblivion,” the actor recalls.
Fortunately, the actor managed to escape from the “clutches of the Daedra” in time. The realization that it was time to end with Oblivion came when he came home from work at eight in the evening and plunged into the game all night long. Looking up from the screen, the actor went to bed at 5:35 am, but already at about 5:45 am the car that had arrived for him was honking outside the window.
“I went to bed at 5:35 am,” says the actor. “My car honked outside at about 5:45 am. And I say to myself, ‘Oh my God, I need to do something about this.” I got up, took the disc out of the Xbox 360 and turned on the gas stove. “I just put the disc on it. and watched it lightly burn and melt. At that moment I thought: “Ok, so we are done with this, never again!”.
After that, James McAvoy has not touched video games for more than ten years, devoting time to creativity and, more recently, raising a child. However, three years ago, he returned to console gaming, starting to play with friends in Call of Duty: Warzonediscussing life topics and battling 12-year-olds from other countries.
“It was kind of a rescue during the pandemic when we couldn’t meet. In fact, we even started spending much more time together than before the pandemic. It was amazing,” says James McAvoy.
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