I am simply here for this Willem Dafoe voice acting energy
Twelve Minuteshas been a long time coming. After years of show demos andscattered demos, Luis Antonio’s time-looping thriller will launch later this month with a star-studded voice cast. Today, we got a glimpse into how that cast is melding together.
Over onCollider, the outlet got an exclusive look behind the scenes at the making ofTwelve Minutes, including interviews with its voice cast. Revealed last year, three stars are taking on the lead roles. James McAvoy plays the husband, Daisy Ridley the wife, and Willem Dafoereturns to video game workas the intruder.
The whole video is really engrossing, and I can’t recommend enough you watch it, if only to see these three actors really get into the voice acting. Bringing in celebrities to voice act in video games can eitherbe a smash hitoran egregious error, depending on how well they adapt to it.
Honestly, I’m digging these performances from McAvoy, Ridley, and Dafoe. It remains to be seen how well they incorporate intoTwelve Minutesas an interactive narrative, but their roles and characterizations come across clear in the clips we see. McAvoy sounds like a befuddled, frustrated man trying to solve a time-looping conundrum, Ridley incorporates tones of both warmth and ire when the need arises, and Dafoe just brings it with the dynamics.
It might have been a long time coming, but it’s impressive to see just howTwelve Minuteshas evolved over the years; from indie darling to an Annapurna-published production with some major star power and aTribeca selection.
We’ll see what all the voice performance and star-power brings to the table whenTwelve Minutesarrives on Xbox consoles and PC on Jun 22, 2025.
