首页 博客 最终幻想VII重生的Briana White Forges社区通过将自己的心戴在袖子上[采访]

最终幻想VII重生的Briana White Forges社区通过将自己的心戴在袖子上[采访]

最终幻想VII重生的Briana White的心中不仅在她的游戏奖提名的表演中以Aerith Gainsborough的身份提名，而且演员继续培养一个以故事为基于故事的流媒体的同情心驱动的奇怪叛军社区。在她最好的表现提名的高跟鞋上，遇到了白色的网站，讨论了Aerith的遗产，奇怪的叛军游戏的成长，生活的治愈能力是奇怪的，并且是理想的地瓜砂锅。

site: I wanted to congratulate you on your Game Awards nomination!

Briana White: Thank you so much!

What's the story behind hearing the announcement?How did it feel?

Gosh, it felt incredible.It felt like so exciting!

这真的很有趣，因为对于黄金操纵杆而言，我在发布这些提名的时候就参加了一次大会，所以我完全专注于其他事情，什至没有考虑。 Now I got to think about the awards season and all that. It really set everything off.

For the Game Awards nominations, they have a livestream.这真的很有趣，因为它从上午9点开始，我于9:02登录到溪流，但是到10-首先，我父亲打电话给我，我就像：“爸爸，给我一秒钟。我很忙，我必须观看此流，这样我就可以看到我是否被提名。” - 到我进入流时，我的类别已经宣布，并且得到了祝贺。

So, I didn't actually see myself get announced that I was nominated, but then I went back and watched the VOD later. So, it was very chaotic… in the best sort of way.

Had your dad been calling to congratulate you? Had he heard already?

No, he just happened to call at the exact moment that I needed my phone to be free. [笑]

With the Golden Joystick Award experience, did you feel like that helped prepare you emotionally for this or was it still just as shocking?

I guess a little bit more prepared. I was a little less like: “Whoa, wait a minute, is that happening? Is it awards season?”

But, at the same time, I didn't expect a nomination for myself. Especially knowing that the Game Awards didn't have a supporting performer category, they just have Best Performance. And that, I really didn't expect that .

My fellow nominees are all incredible. And for some of them, it's not their first nomination.And they've all been in multiple games as these characters as well. It's a lot to be standing next to them, metaphorically.

But I mean, now you're at the point where you have that legacy with Aerith, too. Like we're coming up on almost five years of you voicing her.

Which is crazy to think about.

有时我会觉得，因为Aerith是我的第一个角色，有时我仍然有一些冒名顶替的综合症，因为我感觉自己属于该阶段和这些提名。 And even though, yes, I've been doing it now for five years, and I visited her through three games. It still feels like: “Me? What am I doing here?”

How do you combat that Imposter Syndrome?

The thing about Imposter Syndrome is, it's always going to be there for me, I think. But I don't let it affect my behavior.And I think that's the kind of crucial part for me.

当我录制[最终幻想VII ]翻拍时，第一场比赛时，我因冒名顶替的综合症而受到打击，因为这是一个技术上具有挑战性的语音行为过程，也可以将日语从日语中纳入英语。我就像在我的车里哭泣一样，就像：“这太难了。 I can't do this.”

但是我会看着镜子，告诉自己：“好吧，你有这种感觉，但是如果他们有你，你明天仍然要上班了，对吗？” yep。我是。 [笑]

因此，冒名顶替综合症，几乎就像我有这些感受，我接受并承认它们，但是与此同时，我仍然要做我打算做的事情。如果我不属于这里，很好。 But I am here. I'm going to do my best. And that's all I can do.

如果我不觉得自己做得好，我需要做什么才能使自己变得更好？我与教练一起工作，我上了课，我学到了我可能可以的一切，并且我试图磨练自己的耳朵。 All of those things were super challenging, but they helped me feel more prepared when it came to recording for Final Fantasy VII Rebirth . So that I could really feel a lot more free and just focus on the acting part of it and not so much the technical part of it.

回到与Aerith的这种关系的开始，以及您与游戏行业总体的关系，当您首次获得该角色的试镜时，考虑到最终幻想具有如此多的知识和期望，该研究过程是什么样的？

Well, when I got the audition material, they told me a codename for the game. They didn't tell me what game it was for. And luckily, because I'm a gamer, I knew already kind of what this was about.

But I also thought there was no way that they would cast me because I've never done anything like this and I'm completely unknown. And her previous English voice actresses are very successful, talented, and famous. You know, Mandy Moore, Mena Suvari, Andrea Bowen, they're legends, right?我不是。

因此，我真的以为我要参加它，而不是预订试镜，但是如果我做得很好，也许他们会像旁边的角色一样考虑我？ Which does happen in this industry quite a lot.

I thought I would never book it, and this would be the funnest audition of my life that I'd never be able to talk about. But, I still prepared for it as if I was going to do my best. You know, despite my expectations, I was still going to do my best.

I started with a Google search, like many of us do.当然，出现的第一件事是，由于她在1997年去世，Aerith是游戏中最传奇的标志性人物之一。它震惊了世界各地的游戏玩家，并将所有人的心都撕成碎片。 That's part of why I never thought I would become involved with this character because she's that iconic.

I watched Advent Children , which is the movie that is a sequel to the original Final Fantasy VII . And I watched some playthroughs on YouTube, and some story synopsis, and I read as much as I could about her character.

From there, I had to listen to her Japanese voice actress and try to honor her performance. Maaya Sakamoto has been voicing Aerith since the very beginning.她从来没有再有日本配音女演员。我必须尊重她的表演，因为我知道，参加试镜，这主要是该过程所涉及的。我在耳机中听了Maaya的版本，然后我根据翻译人员在脚本中写的内容给出了我的版本。

So, I listened to her voice and then listened to all the previous English voice actresses as well.然后，我只是坐在流媒体设置上，我给了一些试镜，然后我听了，我说：“我能再呼吸一点吗？” And so, I listened back, and then I did it again. I just did that probably for a couple hours, maybe. And then I had the audition the next day.

Do you think that mentality of going into it with “Oh, I don't know if I'm really going to get this” helped free you up a bit?

It must have. I mean, I just went in there wanting to have some fun and like make a cool memory. I had no expectations. And that must have helped me.

But I don't, it's so hard to know, even in hindsight. It's so hard to know how I was perceived by others, or if it was really just my voice.我不知道。 It's one of those impossible questions.

Well, you did definitely make quite a few memories in the last five years with Aerith.

很多。

And you touched on the localization process of making the game and how thorough that was.但是我想知道，作为一个热爱视频游戏和动漫的人，从幕后的角度来看，这种感觉如何参与本地化过程的束缚？

It was the coolest thing ever.仍然是。因为我知道作为这些游戏的粉丝，预见它将如何结果是多么令人兴奋，然后最终将其掌握在您的手中，然后玩它，然后：“哦，这正是我想象中的，而且更好。”

And so, then to be a part of the process, being able to have the feeling of: “Oh, I know what's happening and people are gonna love it!” That like little giddy like “I know something they don't know” was like just absolutely thrilling!

But a lot of pressure, of course, too, because I can't say anything. So all of that was very blended together into one complex, complicated experience.

但是在大多数情况下，能够……我过去说的是“看香肠是如何制作的”，但您不想看看香肠是如何制作的，但是您确实想看看如何制作视频游戏。 It's like watching a behind-the-scenes documentary, but you're living it. It was really cool.

That's a little bit of what I wanted to touch on. We're kind of in an era where so many people who are involved in the video games industry grew up loving games themselves. So how does it feel to balance being like a professional in a fandom space and a fan at the same time?

I wonder about that sometimes. I wonder if me being such a hardcore fan does affect the roles that I book.

Luckily, or maybe not luckily, I don't know. When I asked the casting director: “Oh, you called me in because I'm a gamer, right?”她说不。 She had no idea that I was a gamer, that I had a YouTube channel, that I was a fan. She had no idea when she called me in.

So, I do wonder sometimes if that affects whether or not people want to bring me in behind the booth. But for the most part, it's just really cool for me. Because when I'm recording, I really only have access to exactly what I need and nothing more. So, I see Aerith's lines, and if I need to see the whole conversation, I'll see the whole conversation. But I don't get a script ahead of time to see like Barret and Cloud having a conversation. If Aerith's not involved, I don't read it.

When I get to play the game, I then get to be the fan too, because there are parts of the game that I have no idea this was going to happen. And so, I do get to have a little bit of that separation. Honestly, it feels for the most part, like I get the best of both worlds.

Are there things you remember, in either Remake or Rebirth , that surprised you most when you played it?

I would say the order of things, in an overarching way. Because we record out of order.

So sometimes, without getting into specifics, the game developers will change the order of some things in order to keep you guessing. Like, “Oh, what's going to happen?” Well, we all know because we played the original Final Fantasy VII that A happens, B happens, and then C happens. But sometimes in the game, they'll do A happens, B happens, D happens … is C still going to happen? And then it does.

我们都在大多数情况下都完全录制了订单。有时我们会喜欢主要故事，然后是侧面的东西，或者，您知道，我们会做一些尚未为我们准备的不同场景的拾音器。 So, the order of things is completely fresh to me and a total surprise.

但是有时候，在原始的《最终幻想VII》中没有发生任何事情，这些幻想最终会参与其中，这些事情使我感到惊讶。

Speaking of things that aren't surprising, we touched upon Aerith's iconic death.视频游戏通常是人们的逃脱，但是在视频游戏中可能会发生许多非常严重的主题，这些主题可以帮助人们通过悲伤工作，并解决一些更严重的问题。

I think Final Fantasy does a really good job of that, specifically.因为当您看一些被称为基于故事的游戏的游戏时，它几乎就像是非常黑暗的一样，它完全将您从日常的Humdrum Life带入一个较暗的地方。 And that can help you put a film over it, a lens over it, to help you look at dark things from a safe distance.

And that's actually a studied thing that we use in therapy, right?就像，为了帮助处理创伤，有时您将镜头放在距离上以从远处研究它，或者您将其他人放在鞋子上以便能够处理。

Final Fantasy does that because the stakes are really, really high. I mean, the planet is at stake. It's life or death, and death is real. Like, a lot of these characters that we know and love are dying, and so the stakes are really high. But it also balances it out with these really silly, goofy moments, and the little vacation at Costa del Sol.

You get to see these characters that have gone through intense emotional trauma, but then they also get to have a little bit of fun. I really like that about Final Fantasy , because it gives you hope that even if you're going through a dark time, it won't always be that way.即使您的生活中的赌注完全如此之高，以至于您也不认为自己会在任何情况的另一端脱颖而出，即使在此情况下，您仍然可以玩得开心。您仍然可以开玩笑，您仍然可以笑着，您仍然可以和朋友一起闲逛。 You don't have to wallow in it.

I think that's what I love about Final Fantasy VII Rebirth , specifically, is tragedy is present because that's life. But also, have fun. I think that's a really beautiful message.

您是否有经验，也许不仅是视频游戏，而且有任何一种媒体，其中发生了一些事情，可以帮助您处理自己的生活中的某些事情？

Yeah, I am really, really fond of Life is Strange for that reason.

I had a very tough teenagehood because I'm someone who feels things very deeply. I was called very dramatic as a child. And hey, she became an actor, we can't be that surprised!但是，因为我觉得事情非常深刻，尤其是当荷尔蒙狂暴而其他人都一样，荷尔蒙也一样，所以一切都感觉就像世界的尽头，即使只是您的朋友不想那天晚上与您一起出去玩。

生活是奇怪的，在尊重一个令人心碎的开幕，流血的含义的含义上，无论在任何地方都在不光顾它的情况下，没有糖衣，而没有使它看起来好像在外面看。放松。 It's not that big of a deal.” When you're on the other side of it. But when you're in it, it really feels like it is a big deal. And Life is Strange did a really good job of that.

When I finished that game, I really did feel like it healed something in me. It broke me because it's a very intense game as well, but it healed something in me to know that, yeah, it almost is a universal experience.

I'm glad you touched on feeling things really big, because something I did want to talk to you about is your gaming channel. You cry a lot over there. I think it's hard to be vulnerable like that. And especially hearing that you felt kinda insecure about that as a teenager. How did you reclaim being vulnerable and crying in public as an adult?

It's crazy that you bring that up because it's true. I sorta made a career out of being the crying girl on the internet, which I did not set out to do. To me, it was never an option to be any other way. It's just who I am.

When I first started my YouTube channel, I played lots of different games trying to figure out what kind of gamer I would be on the internet. There's gamers who play Minecraft and there's gamers who play Uncharted .我是那种玩家的类型，我尝试了很多不同的事情，最终，当我扮演未知的人时，我确实与我可以谈论角色及其之间的关系以及为什么和那个场景如此有影响力的事实引起了共鸣。 People really liked that aspect of my gameplays.

So, that is what led me to The Last of Us , which is an incredibly dark and emotional game. At the same time I was playing Life is Strange which, like I said, just cracks me open in the best sort of way.同时玩这两个游戏就是一种激动人心的体验，我认为这巩固了人们想要从我那里看到的内容。 Which was fine, because that's who I am.

I sort of fell into being a story-based gamer from there. Because that's who I am, that's what people wanted to see. They want to see authentic reactions, they want to see people feeling things.

Oftentimes, I'll get comments like: “I'm a 52-year-old man, I haven't cried in 20 years, but I cried watching your content.”我认为这是一个巨大的自豪感，我的内容可以帮助人们，就像我们之前谈论的那样，从远处有一种让他们感到安全的感觉。我认为这真的很漂亮，我的内容可以帮助他们稍微打开一个人的心，使他们感到安全。

I love your philosophy about what a Strange Rebel means to you. Could you talk about that a little bit?

I had always grown up feeling a little out of mainstream. I was never very popular, I was never very normal. And I always very much wanted to be normal, but, somewhere along the line in high school, I grew out of that.

I had a friend, actually, who was completely, loudly, and unapologetically weird. In the best sort of way.作为高中剧院的一个戏剧孩子，我们都像：“我们不正常，我们不属于主流，那太好了！ That's so much more fun than being normal.” And I think that's where I picked up this like: “Being average, being normal… that's not something you should want.”

I took this idea of being a rebel to mean going against the mainstream, but not in a bad way. Not in a way that's “wears all black and is angsty and mean”. I don't want to be a rebel in that I want to hurt other people. I want to be a strange rebel. I want to be a rebel in a way that makes the world a little bit better. I want to be a rebel in the fact that I do cry on the internet and I don't feel bad about that.

It's easy to be mean to others. It's easy to close your heart off when you've experienced bad things. But it's strange and beautiful to do the opposite of that. I want people to embrace being rebelliously compassionate and rebelliously kind. That's sort of where Strange Rebel comes from and that's really a huge part of my mission.

I wanted to ask about the channel and how you've seen that community grow since Final Fantasy ?

太神奇了。 I mean, when I started out on the internet all I ever heard was that it's a terrible place. That's all I ever heard. I heard about harassment, and women being chased off platforms, and I heard about toxicity in gaming. But, what I found on the internet is that most people are really good and kind, and they just want to share their passions.

I started my channel reading every single comment that was left on YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, whatever platform. I'd read every single comment, every single message that someone sends me. And I pretty much still do to this day, which is a lot harder now, but I really make an effort to do that.因为如果有人竭尽全力观看我的内容，然后给我留言说：“我喜欢这个”，我想偿还他们向我展示我的时间，并至少阅读它并给他们带来的时间，并给他们带来像我这样的时间，如果可以的话，我想给他们带来时间。 I've found that when I engage with them, that only comes back to me tenfold. Because they're good people, and I like them. I like them as people.

我的意思是，现在，我们的一部分是一个非常了不起的，繁华，繁荣的不和谐，在我们有电影之夜，有一个烹饪俱乐部，我们刚刚开设了一个读书俱乐部，我们每个月进行视频群聊，我们每周两次一起玩游戏。 We are there for each other. We meet up at conventions with each other. People in my Discord have found love. I mean, a couple people in my Discord have gotten married after finding each other in my Discord!

I cannot state enough just how proud I am of being able to bring people together in that way because they no longer feel alone. What better thing could I do in this life than bring people together? To celebrate each other, be there for each other, support each other in hard times, and share each other's passions. And all in an amazingly respectful way.

They're so generous. We've raised over $50K for charity, just in my Discord in the past four years.

The fact that Final Fantasy is a huge part of my channel, I do think that that really brings in a good audience. A good group of people that care about the world through the amazing stories that Final Fantasy tells.

But really, I don't care much for numbers, how many subscribers I have, or how many views I get on a video. What I care about is the fact that people have found others like them, that give them faith in humanity, that give back to others. They're not alone in this universe anymore. That's everything to me. That's so much more important than everything else.

Community building is huge, and it sounds like you've curated a wonderful community.

I try, but I don't do it alone.我有一个社区经理杰夫（Jeff），他在运行所有这些活动和计划的工作非常出色，就像我们每年有一个游戏铁人三项赛，我们都在玩游戏并参加比赛以筹集更多资金。 We've even had a custom Dungeons & Dragons Strange Rebel Gaming themed one-shot! We've done so many amazing, incredible things because of Jeff.

I mean it when I say I haven't done it alone. Every person who joins the community is as much a part of the community building as me. And I try to throw that back to them as much as I can. And people say: “Thank you for making the Discord.” No, thank you for being a part of it! It's not me in there chatting all day, it's you all.

我想在离开之前问问，现在您的生活中有什么都带给您欢乐，无论您正在玩的游戏，您正在观看的东西，生活中的人们。 What's fueling you right now?

Well, the holidays are coming up, and I'm a big family person. So, being able to see my family is everything to me. I'm excited to see everyone.

Actually, after this, I'm making a sweet potato casserole that can feed 30 people.

Do you do the marshmallows on top?

No. So, I used to work at a restaurant called Ruth's Chris [Steak House] that has the hands-down best sweet potato casserole ever! Because it's, if you look at the ingredients, it's basically cake, but with a sweet potato base. The top is brown sugar and pecans and butter and then it crisps up in the oven, so it's like a crust. It's almost like an upside down sweet potato cake.

It's mind-blowing. If you've never had it, you must!

太好了。 I am not welcome at Thanksgiving without it. I am not allowed to show up without this sweet potato casserole, every single year for like seven years now. People demand this sweet potato casserole. I just get better at it every year.

I love family. Family's really important to me, that keeps me going. Like I said, my dad was calling me the other day. My parents are very proud of me right now, which is really nice to hear!

And your mom's a gamer, too! How does it feel to have that family legacy now being in video games yourself?

It's crazy because my mom's a gamer and I keep asking her to play my game, and she won't do it!

The games for her are like Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask , so with the Z-targeting, the camera's really manageable. 《最终幻想》 ，她错过了几代游戏，您学会了用另一支棍子控制相机，因此相机控制确实很难。 But maybe one day.

But still, they're very proud and very supportive, even if they can't play my game.

有关Briana White的更多信息，请查看她在《最终幻想VII重生》中的Aerith Gainsborough，她奇怪的叛军游戏社交媒体社区以及她在露丝（Ruth）的克里斯（Chris）官方网站上的招牌感恩节菜肴中饰演Aerith Gainsborough的比赛。

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