Stephen Merchant "Exhausted" By Role as Portal 2's Wheatley

[MetaKnight19]

He was pretty good as Wheatley, although his voice will always, for me anyway, be the voice of the Barclays adverts.

 

[FalloutJack]

He did an excellent job, loved the character.

Funny thing: I heard elsewhere that he said he wouldn't mind doing the role again. Did he change his mind somewhere?

 

[Megawat22]

I really liked Merchant as Wheatley.
Although I think he should certainly take up any other Voice Acting roles that present themselves. He did just voice through a game where he and 2 other characters have to do all the talking in an 8 (or so) hour game. It can only get easier after that.

 

[ryo02]

I liked wheatley I wouldve liked to see more from the other cores aswell but what can you do

 

[Dastardly]

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He did a bang-up job turning the corner from good to evil, especially given how hard that is to do while maintaining a consistent sense of character. The writing did a great job at keeping the shift pretty subtle, and the voice acting stayed within that writing, rather than trying too hard to convey that change.

There were momentary flashes of real evil from Wheatley's character, but they were just that--flashes. A shift in tone of voice here, a bit more anger than usual there, it all felt very organic... which I guess is ironic, considering the character isn't.

 

[Svenparty]

The Barcleys Advertisements made some of his segments quite painful. I couldn't stop imagining Aperture Science Barcleys plans.

Let's just hope Ellen McLain still takes part for any future games

 

[Hungry Donner]

Also: "I suddenly felt this responsibility to try and do a good job"

Wow, so he was planning on doing a bad/mediocre job until he found out Portal was popular? What an ass.

It's possible to go in to a role you're unfamiliar simply wanting to do it well without feeling that there is a greater "responsibility" weighing you down.

And then a Ricky Gervais personality core could make fun of him.

I need to go back and watch Extras, when I first met Wheatley I was sure it was Ricky Gervais and was surprised it wasn't - I must have gotten some wires crossed.

 

[Arif_Sohaib]

Until I saw the IMDB page for Portal 2 I thought it was Ricky Gervais, sounded a lot like him. Did a great job, Cave Johnson and GLADOS(at the end) were not as good but still great.

 

[silasbufu]

And a fantastic job you have done, Stephen Merchant.

 

[subject_87]

Interesting to hear what he has to say, and on a related note, I demand a Saxton Hale core and/or a core voiced by Samuel L. Jackson in this summer's DLC.

 

[Infernai]

First Tara Strong is completely oblivious to the fact that MLP:FIM is insanely popular, and with the older, male demographic at that (How do you feel about how MLP has become popular with teenage to adult males? Tara: "Wait, what?". H
Glad to hear he upped the ante.

I remember Kari Wahlgren, who did the english voice of Rip Van Winkle once was asked in an interview if she knew how much the fans liked her. Her response: "Wait...I HAVE FANS!?"