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Ted Litchfield

Deus Ex protagonist Adam Jensen's signature voice actor also wanted to do his motion capture, but was rejected for being too short: 'apparently, it was a lot of work to stretch me a couple inches'

Adam Jensen.

Don't let insecure boys on the internet or mean people on dating apps tell you different: it's not that big of a gap between 5'11" and 6'1". However, actor Elias Toufexis recently revealed that it may as well have been a yawning chasm during the making 2011's Deus Ex: Human Revolution. 

Though Toufexis was eager to do both voice and motion capture work for Jensen,  the 6'1" character's 5'11" voice actor was passed over for a different performer when doing Jensen's mocap. Over email, Toufexis told me how the split performance came to be, and why he thinks it hurt Human Revolution's presentation.

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