Game (voice)over: actors turn to video game work during pandemic

Demand for voice actors increases, providing relief for workers whose other sources of income has dried up

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It was not only audiences that turned to video games during the pandemic. With theatres closed, and TV and film production on hiatus, British actors chose work they could do from isolation - and the booming gaming industry was ready to fill the gap.

The minute the pandemic hit, it was just everyone asking me: What mic should I get? How do you set up a home studio?'" says Cassie Layton, an actor and musician from south-west London. I was lucky in that I had worked doing voice acting for a few years before the pandemic hit. But every single actor, I think, either had the thought or took the action to set up a home studio."