Top 10 Unlikely Celebrity Gamers You Might Have Played With
08. Ben Foster (Xbox)
A young, rakish, good looking bloke born in Boston, Ben Foster (The Messenger / 3:10 To Yuma / X-Men: The Last Stand) ended up being raised in Iowa after his folks moved there when he was four.
According to Foster, once he signed on the dotted line for his role in the upcoming movie based on the video game World of Warcraft, immersing himself into the game was a given.
He is one of those actors who strongly believes in researching each role and living it as much as possible, and how else would he find his characters voice if not within the game?
To put that in perspective for you, when he approached his role in Peter Berg's Lone Survivor as Matt 'Axe' Axelson - his preparation for that role included basic and advanced military training and practically living with the Navy SEAL advisers for the film.To hear Foster tell it, his WoW experiences started out with three weeks of single-player adventuring 'just to get my feet wet and figure out what was happening' that transitioned to exclusively group play, eventually seeing him join two different guilds - one for each of his characters.
Foster doesn't play alone either - to help him get ready for his role, then girlfriend (and now fiancée) Robin Wright (Princess Bride / Forest Gump / House of Cards) also plays the game, and enjoyed teaming up with Foster and joining in guild play.
Wright is no stranger to video games, having voiced her character from the celebrated cult classic The Princess Bride for the 2008 production of The Princess Bride Video Game.
At one point Foster was playing WoW 18-hours-a-day varying between guild play and pick-up adventures with any group that would have him - or them if Wright was playing.
Chances of having played with one or both? A conservative guess would be that hundreds of WoW players - and perhaps as many as a thousand - would have played with them over the months that Foster prepared for his role. So yeah, good chance.
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Terribly written article, did you even spell-check this?
Felicia Day
Aisha Tyler
Nathan Fillion is not here.
Wat.
good article, although i could've enjoyed it more without that long introduction..
Mila has actually done voice work for more games than you think - it seems that some of the work she does in games is under a pseudonym. As for the question as to whether she is a gamer or an addict - I have to ask, just what is the difference?
As far as the statement that consoles are for kids and PCs for adults, I don't agree with that. Not at all.
So Milla Kunis plays the voice of the chick that tries to kill the awesome Benjamin "MFK" King? Wow...
DayZ SA is the best MMO out there right now.
Consoles are for kids, PC gaming is for real adults.
I played Ultima Online for years, I wonder if I ever ran into Robin Williams unknowingly.
I did 3's with Robin a few times and he was really good
RIP Jett
Yes, it sucks that he went that way... By all accounts he was a pretty awesome person and a great gamer.
RIP Robin Williams :(
[color=Purple][/color] Rawr enough fighting
Missing Fabio i know he was a hardcore everquest 1 player and he had some serious play time in everquest 2 by the time i started playing/quit.
How was Zachary unlikely?
I PLAYED GrIFTBALL WITH HER
My dad played cod with Robin Williams a few times.
corpse grinder from cannibal corpse plays WOW
RIP Robin Willams :(
My girlfriend (22) and me (23) play games together. She is not a gamer, but will kick you fcking ass in League of legends. <3
Thanks for your comments.
For the celebs whose gamer tags we knew we did not include them in the piece out of respect for them - they already get slammed, no need to make their gamer tag unusable by making it public.
And as a result of this piece we can now add the following celebs as gamers thanks to either their own private comments or those of their mates:
Daniel Craig - Xbox 360 / Halo Series
Ellen DeGeners - iPad / MP Puzzle Games
Jay Leno - Xbox 360 and One / Forza Series
Kim Kardashian - iPad / Tapped Out
Lebron James - PS3/4 / Multiple Genres
Robert Downy Jr. - Xbox 360 / FPS and Action-Adventure
Rosario Dawson - PC / MMOs
What about Zlatan Ibrahimovic he plays on playstation
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Loll,dlwosl
Played Warhammer:AoR with the Blue Oyster Cults lead singer for a while. Mythic did the stupid thing of listing boht his server and character name, the annoying swarms were not fun.
Snoop Dogg is know to play Tekken.
It's pretty cool to see what system they play on. I just wish they said the usernames/ gamer tags for these people lol
Robin Williams Used to play ultima online, like a boss that he is.
whoopi goldber plays diablo 3,nuff said.
Idiot females whining about not having more female gamers on the list! hahaha! PMSing?
I really want to know fox's gamer tag because i might have seen her online