The always lovely Felicia Day (The Guild) is starring in a six part web series based on the excellent Dragon Age video game.
The series is out this year and Day plays Tallis, an elf assassin who’s hired by the Qunari to find a rogue mage who’s bent on causing havoc throughout the world. And she’s joined by a host of companions on her quest.
Kotaku had the photos of the shoot and an interview with her.
What can you tell me about Tallis?
Tallis is snarky, so I’m not sure that’s typical of your Elven Assassin. She doesn’t have GREAT leadership qualities, and that’s a challenge along the way, but she has a great outfit, ha. She WORKS for the Qunari, so that’s something new we haven’t seen in the Dragon Age universe.
How is doing a webseries for a big gaming company different from doing one on your own? Do you have a lot more money to play around with?
Working with Bioware was a dream, they allowed us creative freedom to delve into their world. The budget may have been higher than The Guild, but we shoot that show in my garage! This show needed everything made FROM SCRATCH. We had stages, location shooting. We wanted it to look amazing, and on a web series budget that was challenging. The great part is that everyone believed in the script enough to call in tons of favors. We have top tier talent working on this: Peter Winther my director, John Bartley from Lost was our DP, Dan Kaplow, who produces “United States of Tara” helped me and Kim Evey, my producing partner, produce, etc. All stops were pulled out, and it shows!
Do you have to be careful about going too far with the snark and humor? Are there things you can’t do, because you’re working within an existing franchise that has die-hard fans?
I think the Dragon Age universe is so well-written, it has a wonderful sense of humor at the core that doesn’t undermine the drama. I wanted to capture that exactly in my script. Luckily Bioware thought I did a great job, they had minimal notes. We kinda geeked out together, I would send them stuff we were building, they would send me Dragon Age II assets before anyone else had seen them, it was kinda a dream come true.
What do you think of Felicia Day as an elven assassin?
