Dragon Age: Origins VO Interview

GameSpot has published an intersting interview with actress Kate Mulgrew about the voiceover work she did for Morrigan’s mother Flemeth in Dragon Age: Origins.

GS: About the character Flemeth. She’s this very fearsome and mysterious witch of great power who lives off in the wilds. Have you done other roles or had other acting experiences to draw on to portray this sort of aloof character?

KM: I’ve done characters who touch on her, but they do not have her depth. They do not have her magnitude, and I don’t think that they have her discipline. So, if you bring those three things together, it’s a very advanced kind of character. She’s much more than just a witch; she’s more than just a mysterious witch; she’s someone with a profound personal history, and she brings that to bear on every choice she makes.on every strange thing that issues from her mouth. And I think that whoever plays this game knows that, and they’ll know to follow her very, very carefully.

GS: And another thing that’s clearly notable about the Flemeth character is that she has a relationship with another character, Morrigan, who is treated as her “daughter,” yet right when you meet those characters, you realize that this isn’t just a simple mother-daughter relationship. There’s another, more-complex story going on between these two characters. Do you have any thoughts on playing this role or other experiences to draw on to flesh out this relationship?

KM: Well, that was a very interesting part of doing this.to have that kind of co-mixture of acceptance and dripping disdain and fury.and the kind of sentiment about this daughter. And I think I live through this daughter in many ways. In many ways, this daughter stirs up my own past, in which I was beautiful and loved once. And the loss of that reality.I think this daughter Morrigan excites that and stimulates that memory in me, so that every time I’m with her, it’s very tense. And one cannot know, ever, how I’m going to react to what [Morrigan] says because, I suspect, that I don’t really know how I’m going to react. [Morrigan] taps into the emotional part of Flemeth more than anybody else, obviously.