James McAvoy var så glad for Oblivion at han måtte brænde spillet

Vi har vist alle oplevet at være så forelsket i et spil, at vi simpelthen ikke kunne få os selv til at vende tilbage til den virkelige verden. Men for skuespiller James McAvoy blev hans kærlighed så stærk, at der skulle tages drastiske midler i brug.

I et interview med Forbes fortæller McAvoy, at han var så hooked på The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, at han til sidst endte med at brænde spillet for at sætte sig selv fri. Åbenbart skyldes det dog også, at han samtidig med det skulle spille overfor Anne Hathaway i filmen Becoming Jane, og at hans kærlighed til spillet gjorde ham ukoncentreret på arbejde.

"I'm, like, having to go to bed at 10pm, because I'm getting up at 6am every morning, and I've got tons of lines, and all that kind of stuff. And I'm just staying up until four in the morning just playing Oblivion. I went to bed at 5:35am. My car beeped its horn outside at, like, 5:45. And I'm like, 'Oh my god, I need to do something.' So I got up and I got the disc out of the Xbox 360 and I turned the gas hob on. I just put the disc on it and just watched it sort of, like, singe and melt a little bit. And I was like, 'Right, we're done, we're over, never again!'"

Sjovt nok har pandemien nu gjort at McAvoy er en fuldblodsgamer igen:

"During the pandemic, me and my boys, we're all 40-something dudes with gray hair, bald spots, and all sorts of shit. We now talk every two or three nights, playing Warzone and we talk about life, love, everything while getting absolutely annihilated by 12-year-old children from other countries."

Vi håber ikke at han kender til Skyrim, for så ville vi for alvor miste ham.