Remedy's last release and her first gaming role, months before she received a phone call offering her the role of Beth. Since so much time had passed, Hope had no idea what they were talking about — though it soon came flooding back to her.

Bubbling under the surface of their respective Youngblood and Control characters were qualities that compelled these actors to pursue the roles with fervor. "Jess had this underlying anxiety and worry that I loved finding," Lohman says. "She felt like a teenage girl to me."

Speaking of her character, Young says, "she was a free spirit who I wanted to be friends with. The fact that she could stay so positive in the face of adversity, while trying to find her father in a country shedidn't know, while fighting Nazis, was something so special to me."

Hope emphasizes how she loved discovering Jesse's "acceptance of the weird." In her own life, the actor grew up experiencing anxiety and learned to conquer unfamiliar situations by walking into them head-on. "I was excited to expand who I was as a human being and look at who Jesse was in relation to her past and to her future and what her goals were," the actor says.

But the scripts are their own beasts. When Young received the material for Youngblood, it consisted of pages that were out of order. Hope remembers how the writing team were working on the script continuously as they were shooting it. "Sometimes I would get it on the plane on the way to