Comment on Actors demand action over 'disgusting' video game sex scenes [BBC]
theangriestbird@beehaw.org 2 months ago
Just in case you skip to the comments: the complaint is that actors are not being told anything about what game they are working on or what kind of scenes they will be doing. Then, they show up to the studio and they are asked to do explicit sex scenes or sexual assault scenes day-of with little warning or time to consider whether they are comfortable with that.
Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
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Ok yeah that’s really fucking uncool.
There are absolutely actors who are down to do that stuff but you can’t hire people with a script sight-unseen and just drop stuff on them that might straight up give some people a panic attack to even think about, let alone re-enact.
Title makes you think there actors who don’t want games in general to contain explicit adult content, but this is 100% and yet another reason voice actors and game industry workers need to unionize.
I bet your ass the same shit is happening with asset creators and animators.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2 months ago
I think they actually are unionized. At least in the UK. That’s what some of the Baldur’s Gate 3 actors said when asked about the anti AI strikes. They can’t participate because of the rules of theie union.
If I recall correctly there is even a sentence in the article about the British union starting to tackle thia issue.
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
In some countries, some people, in some parts of the industry, are unionized. It’s not even close to being the norm. It’s only slowly starting happen.