Interview: Karen Dyer (Sheva from Resident Evil 5)

Dearest CrunchGear readers: I recently had the honor and privilege of speaking to Karen Dyer, who is not only the voice of Sheva Alomar, from Resident Evil 5, but who also did said character’s motion capture. I hope you enjoy it on this day, our day of freedom.

Obviously, “K” is for Karen, and “N” is for Nicholas. With that…

N: Well, first off congratulations. Resident Evil 5 was a big hit. It sold something like 4 million copies.

K: That’s what I hear!

N: Excellent. But before we get into the game, I just wanted to bring up something I saw on your bio. It says here you’re known for your circus skills, and I just wanted to say how that awesome that is. And I wanted to ask, where do you study that? Because I don’t know if your average community college offers that type of training.

karendyer

K: You might get a juggling course, but maybe not everything that I do. I’ve actually been doing a bit of circus stuff for a while. I’ve been doing fire eating, breathing, twirling performance, stilts, juggling, walking ball, and aerial. It started off just kind of knowing the right people and hanging out with them, and then getting involved with different circus troupes and doing a little bit of circus myself. Now I’ve kind of created this alter ego, Eva La Dare, that I get to use as my sexy circus outlet, if you will. [Note: Here's a video of Eva La Dare in action. I'd say it's mildly NSFW because she's eating fire in a sort of exotic dance setting.]

via Interview: Karen Dyer (Sheva from Resident Evil 5).

Related articles by Zemanta

• Resident Evil presented in clay (joystiq.com)
• Resident Evil 5 Used Real World Virtual Camera [Clips] (kotaku.com)
• Resident Evil The Darkside Chronicles features wet zombies (destructoid.com)
• Resident Evil 5 Declassified Packed With RE Background, Details [Gallery] (kotaku.com)
• Impressions: Wildstorm’s Resident Evil Comic Book [Impressions] (kotaku.com)
• Frankenreview: Resident Evil 5 [Round Up] (kotaku.com)