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Long before he was barking orders in the SAS, Billy Murray, the voice behind Captain Price in the original trilogy, spent years playing Don Beech on The Bill and later Johnny Allen on EastEnders. He stuck with the role of Price all the way through the first three games.
Before he became Jamie Fraser on Outlander, Sam Heughan actually tried out for a part on Game of Thrones. He's spoken about auditioning early on, though obviously the role went a different direction and he went on to lead his own big fantasy drama instead.
While the show was on air, an actual meth dealer named Walter White was arrested in Alabama, and the case got weird enough to become the subject of its own 2013 documentary. Life imitating art in the strangest way.
Doing Gollum's raspy voice for every single line, take after take, wrecked Andy Serkis's throat, so the crew mixed him up a drink of honey, lemon and ginger in water that everyone started calling Gollum juice to keep his voice going.
John Paesano handles the score for Invincible, and outside the show he's the guy behind the music for the Maze Runner film trilogy and Marvel's Daredevil series, along with several Spider-Man video games. His work on Invincible earned its own soundtrack release, split across volumes covering the different seasons.
Long before he was the undead lich guarding Naxxramas, Kel'Thuzad was a respected human archmage and member of Dalaran's Kirin Tor, with genuine standing among the city's magical elite. His obsession with forbidden necromancy got him cast out, and the Lich King's voice found him not long after, turning him into the very first member of the Cult of the Damned.
Steve Wall, who plays Boholt, wasn't a fan of the East London-style accent the Reavers use in the games. Instead he based his own take on the character on the Slovakian fight choreographers he was working alongside on set, which is why Boholt sounds nothing like his game counterpart.
Long before Fernando Martinez was running his euphemistically named prostitution ring, Fernando's New Beginnings, he actually got his start on the airwaves as a DJ on Emotion 98.3. He's already dropping hints of his future pimping ambitions between songs, which is a fun little breadcrumb for anyone who bothers listening closely to the in-game radio.
Deckard Cain isn't just some random old man who happens to know a lot. He's a descendant of Jered Cain, the Horadrim mage who led the original hunt that trapped Diablo and his brothers in Soulstones centuries before the games even start.
Halo 3's viral marketing kicked off in a strange way: on June 11, 2007, Bungie.net's forums appeared to be 'hacked,' setting off months of clue-hunting as fans pieced together hidden servers that gradually revealed the final days of the Forerunners. The campaign, known as Iris, folded story lore directly into the game's real-world promotion.
