Onscreen stars have increasingly been going virtual. Jodie Comer and David Harbour are making their video game debuts in a remake of the 1992 horror game Alone in the Dark.
Yes they were great, I loved the game and their acting in it...but Idris Elba's accent in cyberpunk, not so much.
Surely they could have written it so he could use his own accent.
I think this can go either way. Some actors have done a lot of voice work and it shows, and others have a much more wooden performance than what you'd get from them if they were on a movie or tv show instead. Peter Dinklage voiced Ghost in Destiny 2 and was so poorly received that Bungie hired Nolan North to rerecord all the existing lines and voice the character going forward.