Five minutes into The Last of Us and I've already shed a tear. (spoilers)

[nnodley]

S.T.A.G.E. said:

nnodley said:
Yeah I almost cried. I was like you and imagined it as my own child and it made it worse for me. It still kinda hit me the second time. I think the reason it hit me so much was also because the acting was phenomenal. Troy Baker who voices joel said that that day when he shot that scene was one of the worst days of his life because he had to dig deep and find an experience he had that was emotional in order to get the part right. And what was worse is they had to shoot it again after that.

Being a great actor truly takes balls and complete openness with ones emotions and life experiences. It had to be gut wrenching to dig up all of those memories for less than a minute of tape.

Yeah I would never be able to do it.  Being able to bring up life experiences and work from those is very hard to do. Troy Baker is an awesome actor though and can't wait to see his performance in Infamous: Second Son.