The actor voicing Final Fantasy 16’s main protagonist Clive nearly missed his audition.
“I wasn’t even going to turn up to the audition,” says Clive’s English voice actor Ben Starr in a video discussion with the game’s producer Naoki Yoshida and localisation lead Koji Fox. “I’d had a really, really bad day,” continues Starr, “I wasn’t feeling very well. I think my audition was at about 5:30pm on a Friday. I was the last up to play a small role.” That’s right, Starr was originally auditioning for a completely separate role, but the crystals of fate put him on a collision path toward the game's main man.
