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This video contains major spoilers for the end of
Living World Season 4, Episode 4
A Star to Guide Us
Producer: So here we go on, let me see, line 6 take 8.
Uh, Gorrik, Blish, let's give Lord Faren and
the Commander some privacy.
Taimi is really memorable to me because
she's spunky and
she's not afraid of what
people are gonna think about her,
pretty much ever.
And she's this old soul in a
young person.
To me anyway, she's like a kind of person
you look up to and want to respect and be like.
Because nothing gets her down, really.
Taimi is getting older and she is going through
a lot of things people her age, or her mental age
should not have to go through.
As I get older and I have to go through things in my life
that are experiences that have changed me,
I feel like Taimi has gone through those things
like kids do,
but it affects her the way it affects adults.
Because she started out as an old soul,
and now she's even wiser,
and more worldly.
So now when she might have been just a smidge
more flippant about things,
maybe she has some memories that give her pause
before being so impulsive.
So, my favorite thing about Taimi, is um,
Taimi will get 'er done.
I saw this sign driving in, it's like
Get 'er done
That's like Taimi's slogan, her credo.
She puts everything else aside.
But, not like she's a hardened person.
She has emotions and sensitivities,
and I don't even think she hides it that much.
She just is very pragmatic.
Taimi: "Oh forgot to mention, to prove it only infects humans
he did expose himself to the contagion,
but nothing happened."
A lot of my characters I will either
arrive at technically
or I'll channel someone.
And Taimi is my niece.
And my niece is a spitfire and she just goes after what she wants.
She doesn't always think about the repercussions.
But it's easy for me to get to her--
well now I fall into Taimi in my sleep--
is that a thing?
But to find her initially, that's where I got her from.
And all I have to do is put myself in my niece's body
and imagine I'm with her and then her voice comes out.
Because to me all my characters, they can sound the same,
it's my voice.
But it's the personality underneath them that determines
all the innuendos and the inflections and the different emphases
and the attitudes towards things.
Taimi: "If you have a teleporter in your arm,
that information should come out earlier."
Taimi knows a lot of things that she's maybe not sharing with
everybody yet.
And it's that adult secret that a kid has to keep.
So she has a big box of secrets that she has to
[sighs]
keep to herself.
Taimi: "I wasn't ready to tell you,
but my condition.
It's not in remission anymore.
It's getting worse.
Sometimes the pain is so bad, I can hardly focus.
I can't calculate how much time I have, but
there's an end."
Putting Taimi through a lot of the emotional
things she's going through right now,
it draws on a lot of things.
I have my strong acting training as a foundation.
But, then the things I've gone through in my life,
and that my niece has gone through and that we've
gone through together.
All those experiences, they really help get to that point.
This is probably, of all the video games
and jobs I've done,
the one that has required such an extreme shift in emotions.
Because she goes from the snarky
to broken and very frightened,
to scared for her life,
and losing someone she loves.
So there's this huge range of emtions and
I'm really grateful that you guys, the producers
the whole company
has trusted me to be able to navigate Taimi through all of these different emotions.
Because she has a lot.
She has a lot of stuff going on with her.
It's painful.
And there have been a lot of painful things with--
in my life that hurt a lot.
Both with my niece and my mom.
And just... stuff.
So it does help me get there.
So sadness is part of life,
and it really helps in acting,
and it's not fun,
but that's the job.
Taimi: "Blish sacrificed himself to give us time to stop Kralkatorik.
That's our priority.
Hey,
we have a job to do.
But there's no way we can do this without Aurene.
We have to find her.