#joseph collapse

[lulu2992]

The first episode of a new podcast was released recently, and Greg Bryk was the guest! He talked about his early life and his career as an actor, a teacher, and a writer:

About Far Cry specifically, he said many things he had already mentioned in previous videos/interviews, but there are also some new tidbits.

What he had already mentioned includes:

how the team built smaller spaces for him in the performance capture studio to create the sense of safety and intimacy he needed for certain scenes

why he initially didn’t feel like auditioning for a video game, but changed his mind when he read the script they sent him

the fact the game was about to be cancelled when he was finally cast

the way they wrote the character with and for him

what it was like to shoot Inside Eden’s Gate while Montana was on fire and he had just received the script for the eulogies

the fact he knows Steve Byers (Nick Rye) in real life

his opinion on Michael Mando and Giancarlo Esposito (and Troy Baker too, this time)

how little he got to interact with the actors who played the Heralds

the reason he insisted on carrying Ethan at the end of New Dawn

the fact his oldest son Dempsey was in the Collapse DLC

how passionate the fandom is, and why he thinks the game (and the Father) resonated with so many people.

What I had never heard him talk about before, however, was his opinion on Far Cry Absolution, what he imagines Joseph would have done had he not gone “down the path of madness”, and whether or not he thinks the Voice was real.

About Absolution, he said that, while there’s “a loyalty to the source material”, every time new writers get involved in a project, the story will be told “through the lens of that particular storyteller”. Ultimately, he considers that he doesn’t own the characters he plays and that, more than people, they’re also larger ideas. He’s “totally cool” with artists “taking it and running with it”, like in fanfiction.

To the second question, he answered that he thinks Joseph would have had a garden, been connected to the ground, and built things with his hands. He would most likely still have a family around him and a community, live “a more analog existence”, tell stories around the fire, cook, etc. He would still have a “spiritual curiosity” and be a leader, but his community would be happier, an example of harmony, love, discipline, and authenticity, not “motivated by paranoia and fear of an encroaching world”.

As for whether of not Joseph actually heard a voice, it’s up to people’s interpretation, but Greg chose to believe he did. In the end, because the Father genuinely thought God was talking to him and that he was right, that doesn’t really make a difference. Whatever the reality of the situation was, his belief was sincere, basically.

He also said he enjoyed recording the voicemails for the post-credits scene of the Collapse DLC because that allowed him to explore yet another side of Joseph and another time in his life.

If he had had the chance to change anything about Joseph and his fate, he wouldn’t have. What he’s truly interested in, as an actor, is finding and empathizing with a character’s humanity, no matter who they are and what they do.

[rabirayrana]

The Joseph’s wife reveal hit hard in a vacuum but it weakens upon processing that you’re expected to believe everything he does is a reaction to her loss and that he’s fixated on her to the point of serial femicide but also that he doesn’t think about her. At all. Even the faintest whisper of her identity is nowhere to be found in a narrative that is obsessed with the concept of her. It’s the Citra/Ishwari problem on steroids

[flare-queen]

Angry Judge wife hunting down Joseph, she so determined that the judge has a hunt crew.

[judgesaltar]

I would just like to say Sharky Boshaw has to be one of my favorite characters of all time. He is so fucking stupid and whoever wrote his character literally thank you because he makes me cry laugh scream throw up bc he's so FUNNY LMAOAO I WANT TO BE HIS BEST FRIEND

[das-leben-artist]

One of my favorite moments 😢

DLC, in principle, is extremely rich in atmospheric and soulful moments. I am very grateful for the opportunity to return to the atmosphere of "Far Cry 5"; the olds know how much this game means to me.

[kiichu]

same picture

[killyourrdarlingss]

Thinking about the John line in the Joseph dlc thats:

"I called you Joseph, you didn't come help me!"

Something also along the lines of /you didn't answer (I think) and its just kind of fucked up to think about John laying there like bleeding out, he calls Joseph and Joseph is just

[bluebluemoss]