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[Lunarorbit]

Just saw James mcavoy (professor X, split) on hot ones talk about his favorite video games. He mentioned secret of mana as his favorite and others have said what a COD and oblivion fan he is.


But do actors/actresses actually game? I don't want to discuss that they have no time to game. I want to know who actually boots up their computer or console and plays modern games.

Besides Henry Cavill we always get generic answers like "I love Mario". The games are always from their childhood.

Does Norman reedus game? He's the star of death Stranding and has become associated with gaming. Just seems like celebrities mostly just do it for street cred.

 

[Roberts]

Elijah Wood is a gamer.

 

[KyoZz]

 

[midnightAI]

Jack Black obviously...

 

[cormack12]

Cavill
Brie larsson
Morfyyd Clark
Charlie Vickers
Lots of football players play fifa and other games
Lots of celebs play fifa
A number of F1 drivers play iRacing/ACC etc
Some of them play Minecraft (Max)
Tom Holland
Mila Kunis

 

[Lunarorbit]

Elijah Wood is a gamer.

good call
he's really into bg3. His eyes lite up

 

[Badlucktroll]

snoop dogg

 

[Bartski]

Bartski

 

[MALpractice311]

Peter Serafanowizc was a huge fan of Dark Souls and, as a result, voiced Pate in Dark Souls 2. I've heard he loved the cryptic story telling of DS1 and therefore did not want to know whether Pate was a hero or a villain in order to voice him as cryptically as possible.

 

[Alex Anderson]

AJ Styles owns a Treamcast

 

[T4keD0wN]

Famous people, actors especially have way more free time than an average person

If John Cena could game back in the day when he was having 5+ matches per week in a different country each day no less, combined with spending a lot of time at the gym then your average actor will have a lot more free time to do so than someone who works 40h per week, money simply buy you time and the more money you have the less time and work you have to put in to earn them.

 

[deriks]

She is legit

 

[SJRB]

Elon plays a ton of Elden Ring and Diablo IV, sometimes livestreams it.

 

[nkarafo]

Didn't Robin Williams named his daughter Zelda because he was a fan of the games?

 

[Branded]

Elon is one of us.

 

[Lunarorbit]

Didn't Robin Williams named his daughter Zelda because he was a fan of the games?

Yes.


I just read about zelda Fitzgerald and how she used to taunt F Scott about his penis size. Apparently it made him self conscious and he asked Hemingway to check out his junk. He told f Scott he didn't have to worry and his dick was average size.

Zelda hated Hemingway too

 

[Gamerfan81]

Lebron James. He's a big COD fan.

 

[AV]

Not video games but Zayn Malik from One Direction recently showed up at a Yu-Gi-Oh tournament, which was kinda wild.

 

[Bloobs]

Aint no point to his thread without Mario from the future



And

 

[DanielG165]

Henry Cavil is well known for being a massive nerd, especially with Warhammer, and builds his own PCs. Timothée Chalamet used to make custom 360 controllers in order to terrorize COD lobbies before he was famous.

 

[Little Mac]

Robin Williams. He named his daughter Zelda.

 

[ns6]

LeBron James reportedly plays an alarming, unhealthy amount of Madden.

"I think now he's maybe top 1000 in the world now. I know, late in the season, he told us he beat the 164th best player in the world, I think."

[Anthony] Davis said James is currently playing between 15 and 20 games every day."

 

[Rivdoric]

Neogaf discovering actors are normal person be like : " WHOAAAA they are like us !"

 

[Jack Package]

Famous people, actors especially have way more free time than an average person

If John Cena could game back in the day when he was having 5+ matches per week in a different country each day no less, combined with spending a lot of time at the gym then your average actor will have a lot more free time to do so than someone who works 40h per week, money simply buy you time and the more money you have the less time and work you have to put in to earn them.

Cena is a big NES fan, and he's had shirts based on Mario 3 and Pro wrestling.

If you count local "celebrities", there's me...
Not for a long time, mind you. I'm just a happy wee office drone now, with a little time to actually enjoy gaming!

 

[Embercase]

Ben Affleck use to play Starcraft 2.

 

[MasterDerico]

Megan Fox said she like to play with friends, and also would love to star a MK character in a movie. (That was waaaaay before her voice on mk1)

 

[schaft0620]

Robin Williams Was a big Nintendo guy and named is Daughter Zelda.

I played Unreal on Xbox Live with Sebastian Bach.

A lot of celebrities were playing Animal Crossing during the pandemic. Taylor Swift, Christy Teigen, Brie Larson. A lot of people.

Mark Hopus from Blink 182.

Trent Reznor from Nine Inch Nails.

Most of the NFL and NBA.

 

[tusharngf]

snoop dogg

 

[Roberts]

Peter Serafanowizc was a huge fan of Dark Souls and, as a result, voiced Pate in Dark Souls 2. I've heard he loved the cryptic story telling of DS1 and therefore did not want to know whether Pate was a hero or a villain in order to voice him as cryptically as possible.

Hah, I've been a fan of his comedy so I knew he was into Dark Souls. A few years before Covid I went to London to visit a friend and after getting out of the subway Serafinowicz was walking past me. Probably because we were the only people in the close vicinity he looked weirdly at me and I had this immense urge to say "Praise the sun" but chickened out and kind of regret it ever since.

 

[Banjo64]

Cheating but nearly every footballer plays a lot of FIFA based on what I’ve seen from interviews.

 

[EviLore]

Robin Williams. He named his daughter Zelda.

Zelda used to visit NeoGAF back in the day, too, before she stepped back from the internet world.

 

[El Muerto]

John Carpenter (Director of They Live, The Thing, Halloween, etc.) loves playing games. Even has a game coming out called Toxic Commando.

John Carpenter talks us through his favorite video games of 2022, plus scoring Halloween Ends

John Carpenter talks us through his favorite video games of 2022, plus scoring Halloween Ends

www.avclub.com

Steven Spielberg loves playing Call of Duty on pc with a mouse and keyboard too.

Steven Spielberg Apparently Won't Play Uncharted Because He's a Big PC Gamer and Only Likes Mouse and Keyboard - IGN

Steven Spielberg still loves video games after all these years, but he apparently won't play Uncharted because he's a big-time PC gamer and only like mouse and keyboard.

www.ign.com

 

[Loke]

Didn't Robin Williams named his daughter Zelda because he was a fan of the games?

He was also a fan of Valve's games, especially Half-Life.

So Apparently Robin Williams Was a Valve Fan – LambdaGeneration

The Ultimate Half-Life Community: Half-Life & Valve News, Videos, Mods, Fan Creations and more.

archive.lambdageneration.com

 

[TehGoomba7s]

Diogo Jota is a professional footballer for Liverpool and regularly goes unbeaten in Weekend League, the games competitive ranked mode.

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

A lot of Baseball players love COD even the old retired ones

A couple I have seen playing recently are Ken Griffey Jr and Barry Larkin

 

[Lunarorbit]

Megan Fox said she like to play with friends, and also would love to star a MK character in a movie. (That was waaaaay before her voice on mk1)

I could totally see her as Kitana or mileena. Someone with the bandana on her face. She's got the body for a MK game.

I might have to watch Jennifer's body again. For Halloween research purposes

 

[kingfish]

Elijah Wood is a gamer.

But does he wear wigs tho?

 

[IDKFA]

Yes.


I just read about zelda Fitzgerald and how she used to taunt F Scott about his penis size. Apparently it made him self conscious and he asked Hemingway to check out his junk. He told f Scott he didn't have to worry and his dick was average size.

Zelda hated Hemingway too

A bit of topic, but talking about celebrity cock stories, the above reminds me of the novelist Truman Capote.

Capote was once at a restaurant with friends, when a woman approached him from another table asking for an autograph.

Her husband, clearly drunk and jealous, then walked over to Truman's table and pulled out his cock. He said, holding it in the his hand, "Can you put your signature on this? And Truman looked down at the cock, and up again, and he said. "I don't know about my signature. But I can initial it!"

Anyway, back on topic, I think every premier league football player plays FIFA. It's like some kind of obligation.

 

[kruis]

F1 World Champion Max Verstappen is also one of the best sim drivers in the world.



And why is he the best? Because nothing can distract him.

 

[Quasicat]

Jack Black obviously...

I can’t find it on YouTube, but I remember when the cast of Super Mario Bros. played Mario Kart 8 Deluxe together and he smoked them. It was pretty entertaining.

 

[Nankatsu]

Me

 

[OverHeat]

Adriana chechik

 

[Vick]

Pretty much all I know have been mentioned already.
Not sure about today, but Leonardo DiCaprio also used to be big on gaming. One entire scene in Danny Boyle's The Beach depicting him inside a videogame level was created under his own suggestion.

But the man's apparently a pretty big nerd in general, him and Nicholas Cage fought for a dinosaur skull, Russell Crowe bought another dinosaur skull from him, and I remember reading he's a living encyclopedia of bird species and animals in general.

 

[MCplayer]

Steven Spielberg, one of his fav games ever is Halos from Bungie

 

[EviLore]

Karl Urban is a prominent nerd and gamer

 

[mansoor1980]

Karl Urban is a prominent nerd and gamer

 

[Sooner]

Kyler Murray is apparently good enough to have competed professionally if he wasn't also good enough to play quarterback in the NFL or be drafted in the first-round of the MLB.

Curt Schilling is another obvious one, who used his fame to make Kingdom of Amlaur.

 

[Vick]

Can't believe I failed to mention Sam Witwer..

Witwer is also an avid gamer who hosts regular streams on his Twitch channel.

Days Gone Star Streams Gameplay, Shares Behind the Scenes Stories

Film and TV actor Sam Witwer uses his Twitch stream to play Days Gone and share his experience working on the game and portraying the main character, Deacon St. John.

gamerant.com

 

[Parazels]

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

Didn't Robin Williams named his daughter Zelda because he was a fan of the games?

He loved games