Actress was inspired by Daenerys and Hermione to find the voice of Zelda

The latest deliveries of Legend of Zelda drew attention because it marked the debut of voiced characters, including Zelda, who exhibits a polished English accent fit for royalty, which the voice actress came up with by drawing inspiration from characters from Harry Potter and game of Thrones.

Although the English pronunciation of Zelda in Breath of the Wild and its derivative games is the accepted or admitted, also known as the pronunciation of the BBC, Queen’s English or Oxford English, the person responsible for her voice, Patricia Summersett, is Canadian, but she reports that instead of the American accent she used the one from the United Kingdom to give life to Zelda, something that Nintendo surely asked for.

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Summersett commented that Zelda’s voice is the result of an “amalgamation of various inspirations”. According to the actress, in order to find the voice that she wanted, Nintendo reminded her of “women who are very strong and impetuous, but also with a position in royalty.”

Thus the actress confessed in an interview with Axios that the characters Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) from game of Thrones“a bit” of Hermione Granger (Emma Watson) from Harry Potter and another bit of Amalthea (Mia Farrow) from The Last Unicornan animated film from the 80s that the actress saw in her childhood and has kept in her memory ever since.

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