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Commander Shepard’s Actor Accidentally Immortalized One Mass Effect Race as Steve Buscemi

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Commander Shepard’s Actor Accidentally Immortalized One Mass Effect Race as Steve Buscemi

Mark Meer thought he'd just make alien noises for Mass Effect before he was cast as Shepard

Mark Meer never planned on saving the universe, but the universe had other plans.

You know Meer from a lengthy association with BioWare’s most popular RPGs. He’s lent his voice to several of the studio’s games, from Neverwinter Nights to Jade Empire. Most famously, he voiced the male version of Mass Effect’s Commander Shepard, but his work with BioWare dates back to one of the studio’s earliest breakout hits.

“I did one line in Baldur's Gate 2, and then subsequently, BioWare just kept hiring me for every subsequent project leading up to the Mass Effect trilogy,” Meer said.

In the wake of EA shutting down BioWare, laying off its remaining staff, and canceling Mass Effect: Universe, Polygon spoke with Jennifer Hale and Meer, the voices of Mass Effect’s Commander Shepard. They talked about their hopes for the future of Mass Effect, but also looked backward. Both actors recorded for the studio’s Baldur’s Gate games. Meer would play “monsters and antagonists and that sort of thing.”

They also both had roles in BioWare’s Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic . Hale notably played Bastila Shan, while Meer voiced Carth Onasi, but only in KOTOR ’s demo. The role in the full game eventually went to Raphael Sbarge, who, as it happens, ended up playing Kaidan Alenko in Mass Effect.



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