Before landing the lead role in Assassin's Creed: Black Flag, star Matt Ryan actually thought he was auditioning for a pirate TV show
>In an interview with PC Gamer, Ryan said he ended up loving the experience of acting for a game—even though when he auditioned for the role, **it was actually masquerading as a show to keep the Assassin's Creed sequel a secret.**
>"**It was pitched to me via my agent as a pirate TV show,**" he remembered. "Amy Hubbard, a great casting director in the UK, got me into the room, and then they liked me. They asked me for a callback, and then they leveled with me. **They were like, listen: this is a videogame. They said it was an Assassin's Creed, and I'd played the first one, so I was like 'great, that's a cool game**.' But I didn't think it was mocap—so when it was mocap, **I was over the moon. I get to** ***be*** **the character, in the body, you know?"** #games source