Patrick Stewart's Oblivion Character Prep

One of my favorite tidbits about Oblivion is that, when Bethesda brought Patrick Stewart in to play Uriel Septim, they gave him this big 90-page booklet detailing the character’s history and background and motivations, and they were really worried that they’d gone overboard and given him too much. Meanwhile, Stewart was delighted—he’s said that it was the best character prep he’d ever been given, and he wished more people would do that. It’s worth noting that this character dies in the tutorial

A screenshot of a text post about Patrick Stewart receiving an unusually detailed 90-page character booklet for playing Uriel Septim in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. The joke is that despite all the extensive preparation, Uriel Septim dies almost immediately in the tutorial, making the effort hilariously excessive. It is shared as a reaction to overpreparing for something with a very short or doomed outcome.

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