‘The Walking Dead,’ ‘Rime,’ and Casting Characters (Ep. 35)

The Ringer's Ben Lindbergh and Jason Concepcion talk about the Switch as a mobile experience (2:20) and Ben's impressions of 'The Walking Dead: A New Frontier' (4:30), and 'Rime' (9:33). Then they listen to an excerpt from Ben's conversation with 'Rime' creative director Raúl Rubio (18:08). Lastly, they talk to longtime video game casting/performance director Tom Keegan about his experience casting actors for series such as 'Battlefield,' 'Call of Duty,' and 'Wolfenstein' (31:19), whether it makes sense for game studios to cast famous film actors (42:50), how motion capture has changed the acting and casting process (54:16), and which actors he thinks should play prominent roles in upcoming movie adaptations of video games (55:56).

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