Lowrie says developers began to realize they needed to give more direction to the actors if they wanted sophisticated, cinematic games. So could you say it in a way that would work either way?’ So I said, `Goodbye, son.’ `Great, that’s great. “(They called) up the writer, and it was like, `Okay, okay, so what’s happening is – this is a place where the game branches, and your son is either going to go down to the store and be right back, or he’s going to step through this inter-dimensional gateway and go to another universe and you’re never going to see him again. “And I said, why am I saying goodbye to him? What’s going on?” he said. One time he remembers his line was simply: `Goodbye, son.’ Lowrie says they’d hand him some lines to read with absolutely no direction. In those days, the mid-1990s, game developers were not too sophisticated. “The first video game I did was a thing called Spy Fox Breakfast Cereal,” Lowrie said. Then his agent sent him on video game auditions.Ĭredit photo courtesy of Ellen McLain and John Patrick Lowrie Ellen McLain and John Patrick Lowrie with a baby wearing a t-shirt showing companion cube, a character from Portal, at a fan convention in Sweden in February 2015 Lowrie put together a voice demo (he says he’d been told since childhood that he sounded like Walter Cronkite) and landed work doing instructional videos and things for Boeing. “You know, we just packed up a truck, packed up that old piano and we just moved out and our first gig here was packing fish eggs” at a salmon egg factory, McLain said.īut their careers on stage soon started to take off.
Both moved here to pursue acting and singing roles, but patched together any work they could in the early years. This is a story of unlikely fame for a couple now in their early 60s, who moved to Seattle from New York in 1989, when the video game industry was embryonic. And if you're a gamer, you've probably spent more time listening to this Seattle couple than any of your high school teachers. If you’re 20 years old, you’ve probably played them. Credit photo courtesy of Ellen McLain and John Patrick Lowrie McLain and Lowrie with a Team Fortress 2 team at a fan convention in Sweden in February 2015
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