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James McAvoy was so hooked on Oblivion he had to burn down the disc

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You English hawthorn know James McAvoy from his role as the jr. Professor X in the X-Work force serial publication, or from other movies like Atonement or It: Chapter Two, Beaver State from that time he upset stunned to actually be quite a opportune at baking hot on The Great British Bake-Off. Thomas More recently, he starred in timeloop adventure unfit 12 Minutes, which is wherefore he's in Forbes talking about videogames.

Turns out, as a younger and less famous actor, McAvoy played a good deal of The Elder Scrolls 4: Obliviousness. "That was a kind of game I'd always been into as a kid", he said, "part-acting games, Zelda, Inward of Mana, all that kind of shove. Like, I love fantasy role-playing games."

His erotic love of Oblivion became a problem because he was playing Anne Hathaway's love interest in period dramatic event Becoming Jane at the metre. "I'm, like, having to go to have it away at 10pm, because I'm getting up at 6am all dawn," McAvoy explained, "and I've got tons of lines, and every that kind of stuff. And I'm just staying up until iv in the morning good playing Oblivion." It came to a head when he pulled an all-nighter that ended at 5.35am, 10 minutes earlier a elevator car arrived to take him to the set. Turn to a drastic solution, atomic number 2 turned on his gas stove. "I just put the disc on it and good watched it sort of, the likes of, sear and melt a piddling second. And I was like, 'Right, we're done, we're ended, never again!'"

That was the ending of his Oblivion habit. Funnily sufficiency, within four years McAvoy would be playing Prof X, the role initiated by Patrick Dugald Stewart—who played Emperor Uriel Septim Heptad in Obliviousness.

Although McAvoy swore off videogames at the time, he's playing them again these years, using regular sessions of Call of Duty: Warzone to suppress in touch with his friends. "During the pandemic," he aforesaid, "Maine and my boys, we're whol 40-something dudes with intermediate hair, overt 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-twelvemonth-doddering children from former countries."

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