Twelve Minutes star James McAvoy was so hooked on Oblivion he set the disc on fire

The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion
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澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Twelve Minutes star James McAvoy loved ♒The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion. In fact, he loved it so much he had to set his game disc on fire af🌃ter pulling an all-nighter on a work night.

Talking to about his passion for Oblivion during the filming of Becoming Jane – we're talking almost fifteen years ago now &n💜dash; Mc🎃Avoy admits that he got a little too obsessed with the RPG.

"My partner at the time bought me an Xbox 360 and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion," he said. "That was a kind of game I&𝓡rsquo;d always been into as a kid: role-playing games, Zelda, Secret of Mana, all that kind of stuff. Like, I love fantasy role-playing games. 

"So I’m over there in Dublin. I'm, like, having to go to bed at 10pm, because I’m getting up at 6am every morning🅷, and I’ve got tons of lines, and all that kind of stuff. And I’m just staying up until four in the morning just playing Oblivion. And I was thinking, 'This game is sending me to Oblivion.'"

On the night he decided to heat things up - literally &n🉐dash; McAvoy says he didn't go to bed until 5.35am.

"My car beeped its horn outside at, like, 5:45. And I&rsquoꦡ;m like, 'Oh my god, I need to do something.' So I got up and I got the disc out of the Xbox 360 and I turned the gas hob on.

"I just put the disc on it and just watched it sort of, like, singe and melt a little bit. And I was like, 'Right, we’re done, we’re over, never again♚!'"

That kick-started a ten-year gaming hiatus for McAvoy, althougꦗh he's happy to report that he's൲ back gaming again now – albeit a tad more healthily, enjoying shooters and FIFA.

"During the pandemic," he added, "me and my boys, we're all 40-something dudes with gray hair, bald spots, and all so⛎rts of shit. We now talk every two or three nights, playing Warzone and we talk about life, love, everything while getting absolutely annihilated by 12-year-old children from other countries.

"It’s been a bit of a lifesaver during the pandemic when we couldn’t hang out. We’ve been actually spending way more time than we ever did before ꦕthe pandemic. It’s been amazing."

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Vikki Blake
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