Changer," Balinska says, “especially for me.
The 26-year-old Londoner isn’t just a gamer.
She finds games help her decompress while on the job.
‘Resident Evil’ and ‘Charlie’s Angels’ star Ella Balinska now headlines the ‘Forspoken’ video game.Square Enix (2)
“The projects that I’ve done thus far [are] very action-adventure, intense, protagonist-oriented.
For some reason I’m just very much drawn to those characters of recent,” Balinska explains.
“It’s hard to just be there in that heightened state and then immediately shut off.
Ella Balinska’s Jade Wesker wields a chainsaw in Netflix’s ‘Resident Evil.'.Netflix
So I would say, yeah, it’s part of the process.”
Lately, Balinska playsCall of Dutyto stay connected with her friends remotely.
She also enjoys therapeutic indie releases, likeDyson Sphere ProgramandBaba Is You.
The game that she’d play to win a bet would beSuper Smash Bros.or any of theTekkentitles.
It’s been a long process for the actor.
I think it’s an amazing story in itself as a standalone series.
Sort of framing it in my mind as a limited series is quite nice for me.”
“It was interesting and exciting, but I guess there are so many stories that remain untold.
So this unfortunately was one of them,” she remarks.
(She aptly calls him “Cuff.")
That includes parkour magic, which is how Freya traverses the treacherous environments of Athia.
That’s not to say Balinska herself was parkouring in her motion-capture suit.
Though she says the crew did record her walking, falling, jumping, running, and talking.
But Balinska was sold on the character.
“She’s very bold, she’s unapologetic.
She’s not like characters that we normally see,” Balinska says.
“She’s just so ‘out there’ in terms of her reactions to everything.
“For it to be there is a huge step in gaming, I think.”
It all feels like a full circle moment to Balinska.
Her introduction to games came as a kid accompanying her mom to hair appointments in London.
“I used to go downstairs to play video games with [the stylist’s] son.
That was the first time I really started to get into it,” Balinska says.
Forspokenis out now on PC and PlayStation 5.
