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I think it's one of those things of seeing her in stuff before, e.g Farscape and Stargate, which I've a feeling Ethan hasn't seen either. IIRC he's remarked not recognising Morrigan from Dragon Age, Tess from Destiny n the Quarian admiral in Mass Effect as the same person. Cos yeah I'd say she's quite a distinct female VA. Quite bass heavy tones.

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  On 6/15/2017 at 3:11 AM, Saturnine Tenshi said:

Dammit, Ethan! I saw that.

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Saw what?

As far as her voice being distinctive, I haven't played an Uncharted game in probably 5 years.  And Dean is correct that I haven't seen Stargate (well, not more than a couple episodes infinity years ago) or Farscape.

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Oh, yeesh, that's bad.

*Edit - If Laura's description of events is correct, then I can see how they ended up where they were.  According to her she was cast as the character before the character was designed, she was just an intelligent, strong-willed, South African woman at that point.  Then after she was cast and they'd begun rehearsing the character designers came up with the current design for the character, with her being black.  So then they were faced with either fire the voice actor, redesign the character to be white (and thus lose a strong character of color), or go forward with it.  I can see how none of those options are particularly appealing.  Sounds like they need to change something about the process to try to prevent something like that happening again.

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Yeah, in this instance I really think choosing a voice actor of colour would have been the best way to go. Laura is never short of VO work, so not like she is gonna starve off one missed opportunity, sure she'd be annoyed about it, and rightly so, but bigger picture would be better off for more minorities in games behind the scenes... Also, the comments are really shitty on that article "Darth Vader was white and voiced by a black guy, so this is totally fine." ffs... 

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