Troy Baker has had many online game roles over time. He’s Indiana Jones in The Nice Circle, he’s Sam Drake within the Uncharted sequence, he’s Booker Dewitt in Bioshock, he’s Higgs in Dying Stranding… The listing goes on (and on and on and on).
One in all his most well-known roles, although, is Joel in The Final of Us. Baker portrayed the cynical smuggler turned surrogate father in 2013’s unique launch, earlier than reprising his function in 2020’s sequel. However, whereas Joel could have elevated Baker’s profession, the actor has admitted he was “woefully unprepared” for the half.
A have a look at a few of Troy Baker’s roles over time. Watch on YouTube
Throughout a Q&A at GalaxyCon New Orleans 2025, Baker was requested if taking part in Joel had affected him personally, to which Baker jokingly quipped “you are attempting to make me cry”. He then elaborated on his function additional, saying it had affected him “deeply” in many alternative methods.
“There’s nothing worse, and I hope that nobody ever feels this… [but] do you ever present as much as one thing and go ‘I’m so woefully unprepared for this’? And, it isn’t imposter syndrome, it is a truth. You aren’t geared up to do the factor that you’re about to do,” Baker mentioned. “You could possibly be like, ‘let’s go bungie leaping!’, and then you definitely get on the platform and also you go, ‘I am unable to do that’. That was The Final of Us for me. You get the gig, and then you definitely go, ‘oh no, I’ve to ship this’.”
Baker recalled going by way of the script and pitch within the early days of The Final of Us with the event staff and his co-star Ashley Johnson, who performs Ellie within the video games. Throughout a break, Baker turned to Johnson and mentioned: “‘Do you realise that if this factor sucks, it is our fault?'”
He famous Naughty Canine already had had nice success with its Uncharted video games, and the studio now knew the story it wished to inform subsequent. “We knew that what they had been going to make was going to be good,” Baker recalled, so now the strain was on him and Johnson to ship a worthy efficiency.
The Final of Us “taught me find out how to be a greater actor”, Baker continued. “It taught me find out how to cease attempting to persuade folks that I may act, and simply realise that Joel has no concept that he is in a recreation, and he is simply in a second in his life. And, I took that lesson, and I apply all of it the best way throughout.”
Picture credit score: Naughty Canine
Baker extra lately starred in Dying Stranding 2, the place he reprised his function of Higgs. Earlier this month, he was additionally introduced because the voice of Jack Pepper, the lead protagonist of Mouse: P.I. for Rent.
As for Naughty Canine and The Final of Us, the studio lately introduced a e-book containing the online game scripts for each of Naughty Canine’s video games, together with the primary recreation’s Left Behind DLC, is being launched. Away from its post-apocalyptical sequence, it additionally engaged on Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, which stars Tati Gabrielle as bounty hunter Jordan A Mun.
