There are a lot of things Adam Jensen actor Elias Toufexis didn't ask for, not the least of which is vitriol on social media, as he told PC Gamer associate editor Ted Litchfield in an interview at GDC.
"I was working on Marathon yesterday, and I was like, 'Guys, tell me to stop engaging on X,' because I keep engaging and I really shouldn't,'" he said. While he isn't afraid of saying anything that'll get him fired, he's tired of a particular strain of outrage which mostly crops up on the everything app.
"I saw some guy like, I don't want to get into specifics, but they're just like, 'I hope Bungie fails because of the woke leftist ideology.' And I'm like, 'I'm working with four white guys and two white women. I don't understand this. Where are you getting this?'"
Toufexis said that he "welcomes" critique both as an actor and of the games and films that he's in, but feels that some go a bridge too far. "I understand Bungie made a game, Destiny 2, that people loved, and then they kind of were like, 'We're gonna put that on hold and we're gonna work on Marathon.' People got upset about that. Cool, don't play Marathon. That's fine, speak with your wallet, that's fine."
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