Assassin’s Creed Nexus VR – Morena Baccarin on Bringing a Villain To Life

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Assassin’s Creed Nexus VR offers players the chance to embody Master Assassins from across history in virtual reality, making full use of the parkour and combat abilities of Ezio Auditore, Connor, and Kassandra – but there’s a fourth character players inhabit as well: a nameless hacker who goes undercover at Abstergo, and answers to the company’s head of cybersecurity, Dominika Wilk. Dominika’s mix of corporate professionalism and ruthless ambition was brought to life by actress Morena Baccarin (Gotham, Deadpool), who performed facial capture and voice lines to the character. We spoke with Baccarin about her role as Dominika, and the experience of creating a character for VR.

What did you find interesting about the character of Dominika Wilk, and being able to portray her?

Morena Baccarin: I like the complexity of a character that sort of blurs the lines between good and bad. She has her agenda, and it's often against what the player was wanting. It was really interesting to try to be alluring, but then also rude and mean if I needed to be, and all the different options for all the different outcomes that could happen. So it was kind of fun to play a character where you have options for personality, and what part of her comes out.

How involved were you in the approvals for the character? Was there a point where you were like, “I wouldn't move like that?”

MB: I mean, not in the movement, but definitely in the look of things. We went through a lot of rounds of notes about, like, the placement of my eyes, or the size of my knees, which is such a weird thing! But when you look at it, you're like, “I don't look like that!” It's weird! [laughs] And it made me realize details about myself that I never paid attention to