168澳洲幸运5开奖网:God of War Ragnarok was the big winner at this year’s BAFTA Game Awards, with 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Sony Santa Monica’s sequel taking home six awards from its 14 nominations. I had a chance to catch up with Sunny Suljic (Atreus) and Adam Harrington (Sindri) on the red carpet to chat about their performances and how 🌌it felt to bring one of the biggest games in years to🀅 life.
“I started working on the project at such a young age,” Suljic recalls. “I’ve thoroughly enjoyed every moment working on set and off, and I feel like I’ve developed such a strong connection with everyone that when w🏅e shot Ragna𝓰rok it just felt like second nature. We were a family at that point. I knew everyone on set, I knew everyone working on the project, and it’s such a pleasure.”
While Suljic nor Harrington took home the gold - that 🌱honour went to co-stars Christopher Judge and Laya DeLeon Hayes - to hear their excitement and disbelief about even being in the running ahead of the ceremony brings forth an infectious excitement. “Dude, I don’t even know,” Suljic tells meꦅ. “I’m just so excited to be here and trying my best to live in the moment as much as possible.”
Suljic is more than likely the future of God of War, or will at least star separate from Kratos in new adventures as he picks up the mantle. He is expectantly cagey about it all: “I think there are so many routes where Atreus can go, and people working on the narrative aspects will have a better idea of this than I would. I think it would be cool to see Atreus grow into a man. I’ve had the opportunity to grow up with the ch🤪aracter as📖 well, so I feel like I can see myself a lot in the character as well, so I feel like we’re both developing at the same time.”
Ragnarok was not only a story about Kratos and Atreus growing closer as a father and son duo, but also growing further apart as their own, very different lives, began to move in a new direction. I asked Suljic how it felt to act out those emotional moments on set, and to see his character grow into someone far more capable. “After working with Chris for so long, he’s like a father to me. So a lot of these scenes felt real as we were doing the takes and it was really impactful. It felt like a lot of the work wasn’t even coming off the script, it was all n𝓀atural dialogue and which was kind of a foreign feeling to me compared to other projects.”
Harrington’s role as Sindri is arguably understated in the grand scheme of things. He spends much of the two games as comic relief, acting as our germaphobe merchant who can pop up anywhere with an endless bag 🤡of trinkets to help make the journey more convenient. It isn’t until Ragnarok’s final act in whi🐻ch his brother, Brock, is murdered with no chance at reaching the afterlife, that Harrington twists him into a mournful man driven by scorn, all his happiness now faded away to nothing.
“Going into [God of War] 2018, I had to base the fun lovingness in something,” Harrington tells me. “A lot of people who suffer f🌳rom that ty꧋pe of anxiety with germaphobia and so on usually stem from trauma. Although I never told anybody, when this came up it made sense to [channel into that]. You bring up a great point in that he doesn’t forgive anyone by the end because he’s not ready, and he’s not gonna be there and it’s not gonna wrap up nicely.”
Ragnarok is also a story about grief from myriad perspectives, whether it be coming to terms with long-held loss or encountering new interpretations of it. “The story is beautifully told and how everyone is always moving in and out of grief. But I love the moment in The F꧅orge when Sindri is going after Atreus, and Kratos says, “Mourn how you wish” and that understanding of being there.”
Sindri’s final appearance in Ragnarok is one of aggressive silence. He appears suddenly at Brock’s funeral to see him off and hardly says a word, batting away attempts to apologise by a found family who spring forth because he isn’t ready. ෴He teleports away, and it’s the last we might ever see of him. Harrington finds this farewell fitting, and one that does Sindri justice.
“Sony Santa Monica did such a beautiful job with it that I’d be happy to come back. But if this is the last time you ever see Sindri, I think it holds a really important aspect of grief and war༒ that allows the redemption stories of other characters to shine even more.”
