"The best way to describe it was as a bleached script, which is when you have a certain amount of information about what the archetypes of the character are, the general world - for example, that it looks like an RPG fantasy - but you have no idea what the actual roles are going to be or what the game is. And there would've been no way of predicting that it was Zelda because she didn't have a voice before."
"It's a little more comfortable to say this is a Hylian accent versus just a particular version of a UK accent. The British accent choice was inspired by Summersett's schooling in London and Zelda's royalty status, representing a creative decision rather than a directive from Nintendo."
Patricia Summersett, who has voiced Princess Zelda for ten years across Breath of the Wild, Tears of the Kingdom, and related spinoffs, shared insights into her casting process and character development. During her audition, she received only minimal information about the character archetypes and game world without knowing she was auditioning for Zelda, as the character had never been voiced before. Summersett's choice to give Zelda a British accent stemmed from her own London schooling and the character's royal status, rather than from Nintendo direction. She conceptualizes this as a Hylian accent rather than a specific UK accent variation, contributing to the character's unique identity.
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