11:30AM Clem Bastow | Here’s one for those of you who think success is necessarily only facilitated by television and movies: an expat Australian actress took an odd call from her agency and her digitised form will now be seen by bazillions (note: may not actually be scientifically proven statistic) of gamers.
Welcome to the darkened bedrooms and LAN parlours of the world,
Michelle Van Der Water!
The 30-year-old has scored an unique role as the heroine in the fifth instalment of hit video game Resident Evil, which will be released in October.
Makers of the horror game, set in Africa, have used Van Der Water as the model for Sheva Alomar, an agent who handles firearms and is involved in hand-to-hand combat. Alomar is also the partner of the main character.
For the part, Van Der Water had to be photographed dressed up in outfits with guns and firearms.
The digitised end product looks very much like her, she said.
“It was very exciting… I was pretty pleased,” Van Der Water said from Los Angeles today. “It came out really well.”
Michelle is onto a good thing here, as much as most will shrug and say “so what?” Geek fame is the best fame of all – it’s
everlasting.
If
Galaxy Quest has taught me anything, it means that, so long as you don’t piss off the faithful, you can go to comic-cons and open shopping centres and discount computer retailers for the rest of your natural life!
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