Ellen Page has said her performance for Quantic Dream's upcoming Beyond: Two Souls represents her "most challenging acting job."
Speaking to Metro UK Page commented "With a movie, you might shoot, like, a page a day. With a videogame, you don't really know what you're walking into. I had a 2,000 page-script and every day we'd shoot 30 to 40 pages. It was absolutely the most challenging acting job, a really, really emotionally intense and gruelling experience.
"I would go into shoot stuff and have about two seconds to get into the right emotional state," she continued. "Wearing the sensors was strange at first – you can't physically touch your face and I thought: 'What if something is emotional and I'm crying?' But in the end it was kind of nice just coming into work and putting on my little suit without having to go through hair and make-up."
Page, who has starred in Inception and X-Men First Class, said she felt connected to her character, Jodie "A lot of people will relate to feeling like an outsider, feeling misunderstood, not fully seen, lonely, you know. So I think it's going to be a game a lot of people connect with – dealing with this element of herself that Jodie can't live with but can't live without. That love-hate feeling of being different is something universal.
"David (Cage) told me about Jodie's story and I was in there and then. I had gratitude for creating a character like that and then to have the opportunity to play her and have an experience like this is unlike anything I've done before. David had written the character so beautifully that I felt connected to her."
Describing herself as "stunned" by Quantic Dream's Heavy Rain Page added "I didn't know how to wrap my head around it. I mean, what does it mean to be in a videogame? I had no concept. I hadn't played anything in, like, ten years. I kind of stopped at Crash Bandicoot… great game, though."
Special editions of the game come with 30 minutes of extra gameplay. Beyond: Two Souls launches exclusively on PlayStation 3 on October 8th.
