im genuinely bothered that samantha béart got no accolades for voicing karlach. neil newbon is great, but samantha's performances on.. man, every line i ever hear from them, not least their more devastating plot moments, just blow me out of the water. i was fully moved to tears by one of them, and im just like jfc can we shout out samantha béart more. samantha béart!
So this was Samantha Béart (Karlach)’s response to Neil Newbon (Astarion) saying that out of the Baldur’s Gate 3 companions, he’d probably go for Karlach.
Ladies and gentlemen, she just called him a fucking sub.
The second time at this part and the second time I've been struggling so hard not to bawl all over my keyboard. Even while editing this video, I had a hard time not to cry. Samantha Béart's performance is outstanding, and they don't even get nearly a fraction of the recognition they deserve, imho.
re: Karlach's height - on her last stream Samantha Béart (Karlach's VA) said that Karlach was designed and written as 7ft tall but the implementation of a character in game who was that tall with the existing characters and height types was too complicated so Karlach has the 'large' female body-type (which is 6ft). Technically, both are canon as a result.