Star Wars Battlefront 2’s 'hero' is Sleepy Hollow star Janina Gavankar… like, honestly, who knew?

***UPDATE, APRIL 15, 1450 ET / 1950 BST: EA just confirmed that Janina Gavankar will play elite Imperial officer Iden Versio in 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Star Wars Battlefront 2. As an 'Imperial hero', you'll follow her after the events of Endor, spanning the 30 years until Star Wars: The Force Awakens and the rise of The First Order. It'll form an official part of the Star Wars story, allowing us to see the war from a different perspective.***
***UPDATE, APRIL 15: Actor Janina Gavankar has updated her Twitter feed to include a fan-made picture of her stood with Ewoks, which does little to quell speculation that she'll appear in Star Wars Battlefront 2. A few hours later, as if further hints were necessary, she tweeted a photo which looks uncannily like the Endor scene from the Star Wars Battlefront 2 trailer that she (likely) appears in. The image includes a note to 'watch for a link' from 1430 ET which is when the Star Wars games panel begins at Star Wars Celebration. See the images after the original story below.***
Star Wars Battlefront 2’s lead character migh🗹t be Sleepy Hollow and True Blood actor according to online speculation – and the evidence stacks up. The trailer’s narrator, an imperial stormtrooper, is a compelling visual and audio match for the US actor, whose Gavankar has previously appeared in Far Cry 4, as the voice of Amita, and the Halo 5: Guardians spin-off, Hunt the Truth. She’s recently (and repeatedly) shared Star Wars content on her Twitter feed – placing her in an elite club of several million people, admittedly – and interviewed Horizon Zero Dawn star Ashly Burch. Gavankar retweeted a comment from EA Motive writer , the studio believed to be handling the game’s single-player story, according to – although we were unable to find this on her Twitter feed.
Either way, fans are convinced that Janina is the star of the new Star Wars Battlefront 2 story mode, which focuses on ‘The soldier’s untold story’, set after the events ♋of Return of the Jedi.
@MakingStarWars The voiceover 🐻and the likeness ♉make it seem like the narrator character is played by @Janina, actress Janina Gavankar.
@Janina congratulations on your Star Wars Battlefront I🐼I voice acting gig! Your character looks amazing! Keep up the great work. :)
Congrats to @Janina for making it into a Star Wars game... Or are we not supposed to talk about that yet? 🙃
@Janina congrats on the work for battlefront2, awesome you get to be first on an imperi💟al raider!
We might be putting two and two together to make five, but Gavankar's Tweet below has an added layer of intrigue, if you consider it in the context of a self-confessed Star Wars fan landing a Battlefront 2 role. However, Feb 4 is only two months ago, which doesn’t feel like a long time to record mo-cap and audio for a video-game trailer and / or single-player campaign. Having said that, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Hideo Kojima turned around the Death Stranding deb🐬ut trailer in a similar, if not shorter, time-scale.
Started a secret project today that I’m puking w excitement over. This day has me so emotional. 😳
There is, crudely, a more practical rationale to be made, since game publishers tend to prefer working with slightly off-radar Hollywood talent – largely due to the time and financial cost of (re)recording mo-cap and dialogue, especially since games have rich potential for multiple changes until the final months before release. That, plus the fact that Gavankar *looks exactly like* the lead character in the trailer. And genuinely loves games and sci-fi. The actor has received a l♛ot of Tweets asking about her role in Star Wars Battlefront 2 today, and her response isn’t with🐈out a sense of humour (or likely an NDA clause).
For all of you asking me questions... I will confirm...ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ this is a @cam꧋posanto @Firewatchgame shirt. //t.co/MuayFO7zUs
@Janina LOL. Well congrats on that thing that you can't confirm, and also on the Surface Studio 😉
Dಞefinitely better. Thank you @celtictso pic.twitter.com/nJ1pMEStaf
2:ღ30 est. watch for a link. pic.twitter.com/JQ4VksVUoB
All will no doubt be revealed at the Star Wars games panel at 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Star Wars Celebration in Orlando this Saturday April 15. For more info, check out 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:everyt🅰hing we know abo🌼ut Star Wars Battlefront 2 so far.
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