Richard Charles Lintern gives one of the most impassioned performances in all of Elden Ring. He plays Igon in Shadow of the Erdtree, the "broken drake warrior" we find sprawled on the ground along the Jagged Peak road, screaming in agony; "The pain, the pain!"
He is obsessed with slaying Bayle the Dread to the point that his very hatred has imbued itself in his greatbow. And so it is that we summon him for this one last hurrah against a being so strong that they decapitated Dragonlord Placidusax. Despite giving such an inflamed performance, bringing to life Igon's spite so convincingly, Lintern isn't even sure that he knew Bayle was a dragon at the time of recording.
"I'm standing there with my arms outstretched," Lintern said in an interview with IGN. "I don't think I even knew that Bayle was a dragon. I think I might've thought Bayle was a person. I can't remember, but I'm giving it as much as I possibly can, vocally, emotionally, neck stretching, vocal cords ripping, everything."
Elden Ring's Igon Actor Was Exhausted After Recording
Igon is already an icon in the community, standing tall with giants like Havel, Solaire, Patches, Eileen the Crow, and Iron Fist Alexander. When summoned, he charges into the arena screaming, "CURSE YOU BAYLEEEEE!" It's hard not to feel reinvigorated after your 100th death when Igor's in your corner, even if he dies pretty easily.
But such a performance comes at a cost—understandably, Lintern was exhausted after his five-hour recording session.
"I remember thinking when I left, A) I'm exhausted. That's never happened to me before. My voice is wrecked and I'm physically exhausted, and I'm emotionally exhausted as well. B) that was quite an experience. There were a lot of people in there," Lintern recalled. "We were doing lines hundreds of times, literally hundreds, because if I was there for five hours, the actual total amount of lines that I spoke, I could've done in seven minutes."
This was Lintern's first time performing in a video game, having previously worked on TV shows like Pennyworth, Foyle's War, Top Boy, and EastEnders. But after just one performance, the community is as obsessed with Igor as he is with Bayle.
