It's no secret that The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion is an amazing game. But for James McAvoy, it was more than that.
James McAvoy is best known for portraying the younger Professor Xavier in the X-Men movie franchise. But like the awesome person that he is, he often plays video games like Call of Duty: Warzone with friends. However, there was a time in his life where he didn't touch video games very much. According to a recent interview largely focused on Twelve Minutes where he provides his voice to the main character, this is apparently thanks to a devastating binge of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion that ended with him actually burning the disc on the stove to stop himself from playing it.
McAvoy remembers the incident back in 2007 while filming the movie Becoming Jane. “My partner at the time bought me an Xbox 360 and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion,” he said. “That was a kind of game I’d always been into as a kid: role-playing games, Zelda, Secret of Mana, all that kind of stuff. Like, I love fantasy role-playing games.”
McAvoy loved Oblivion so much that he ended up living the life of a gamer. “And I’m just staying up until four in the morning just playing Oblivion,” he added. “And I was thinking, ‘This game is sending me to Oblivion.'”
Gamer McAvoy suddenly realized enough is enough when one night when he went to bed at 5:35 AM only to have his car blow its horn outside at 5:45 AM. “I’m like, ‘Oh my god, I need to do something,'” he said. “So I got up and I got the disc out of the Xbox 360 and I turned the gas hob on. I just put the disc on it and just watched it sort of, like, singe and melt a little bit. And I was like, ‘Right, we’re done, we’re over, never again!'”
Twelve Minutes, in which James McAvoy provides his voice, is currently available for Xbox and PC.
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