One-to-One: The rise of A Plague Tale's Charlotte McBurney

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You know her best as Amicia from the Plague Tale series. Charlotte McBurney was just 16 years old when she was cast in the first game, and everything about the recording experience was new. She would run home from college so she could fit a few hours of recording in.

Jump forwards a few years to the sequel A Plague Tale: Requiem, though, and French developer Asobo is now well aware of what McBurney can do. So it expands her role. It makes it more emotionally demanding. And McBurney rises to it, delivering one of the standout performances in games in 2022, earning herself a BAFTA nomination in the process.

With a Final Fantasy 16 credit also now to her name, McBurney has cemented herself as a future talent. Here, Bertie finds out how she ended up doing this, what it was like recording A Plague Tale, and what's next.

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