FINDING HENRY

While Frank and Rodkin knew that they wanted Delilah to be played by Cissy Jones, who they’d worked with on The Walking Dead: Season

One, finding the right Henry proved very hard. “It took months,” Remo recalls. “We heard so many auditions, and this is nothing against any of the actors because there were a lot of really talented people who read, but there was just something about the material that demanded a particular person. And until we found that person, it was really dispiriting. At times I thought, ‘We’re probably just not going to have a great male voice actor.’ I reached a point where I’d accepted that Delilah would be good and Henry would just be fine, but that it would be OK as the player would do a lot of that work for us because they’re choosing what to say and so emotionally invested automatically.” After a gruelling few months, the team listened to an audition from Madmen actor Rich Sommer, and everything finally clicked into place. “It was just like, ‘Oh! Thank god!’” says Remo. “When we heard his audition, literally everyone on the team was like, ‘Oh, OK, we’re done.’ And it wasn’t even that he was the best out of everyone we’d heard – it was that he was clearly the only even remotely plausible option.” Unusually for such a relatively small project, Jones and Sommer recorded their lines together. “We had to do that because it was so intimate,” Remo explains. “These people are basically the only other human that each speaks to for months. Without recording at the same time, I don’t think that rapport could possibly have been developed to the same degree.”