ages X-Z." She adds that she's stereotypically cast as the "sweet" or "quirky" girl. "It was cool for someone to see something in me that I feel like I know internally," she says.

Hope just took on the lead role of Jesse Faden in Remedy's mind-bending action adventure game Control, and dove headfirst into the challenge of facial capture. "When you’re falling or fighting or having an intense conversation with exertion, you’re not moving, you’re standing still," she explains. "That was something where I had to tap into something deeper."

All three actors inhabit the gaming world as avid gamers themselves. Young grew up with a Nintendo 64 console and a Game Boy, eventually becoming obsessed with Kingdom Hearts. "I felt a responsibility to save the characters," she remembers. "It"I love cars," she says. From there, an interest in World of Warcraft developed, which, to this day, she enjoys playing with her boyfriend.

When the time came for the actors to audition for roles in video games, there was often some secrecy involved. "You get a very vague description for the audition," says Lohman, "so it's about making a choice and coming in with a strong opinion." When she won the title role in Annapurna Interactive's 2017 indie hit What Remains of Edith Finch, she did not realize it was a game. Once everything was explained to her, she was thrust into a world she "had never fully paid attention to" and felt excited by the "groundbreaking narratives" that she was suddenly exposed to.

Hope auditioned for Quantum Break,