{"id":14601,"date":"2026-07-10T11:27:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T11:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextlevelnews.co.uk\/blog\/2026\/07\/10\/i-just-cant-believe-my-luck-dark-souls-superfan-peter-serafinowicz-reveals-how-he-landed-a-role-in-the-upcoming-elden-ring-movie\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T11:27:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T11:27:25","slug":"i-just-cant-believe-my-luck-dark-souls-superfan-peter-serafinowicz-reveals-how-he-landed-a-role-in-the-upcoming-elden-ring-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextlevelnews.co.uk\/blog\/2026\/07\/10\/i-just-cant-believe-my-luck-dark-souls-superfan-peter-serafinowicz-reveals-how-he-landed-a-role-in-the-upcoming-elden-ring-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"‘I Just Can’t Believe My Luck’ \u2014 Dark Souls Superfan Peter Serafinowicz Reveals How He Landed a Role in the Upcoming Elden Ring Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Actor Peter Serafinowicz has revealed how a chance encounter with fellow Dark Souls superfan Alex Garland led to him landing a role in the upcoming Elden Ring<\/a> movie.<\/p>\n

Serafinowicz, who is best known as the voice of Darth Maul in Star Wars: Episode I \u2013 The Phantom Menace, for playing Pete in Shaun of the Dead, Garthan Saal in Guardians of the Galaxy, and The Sommelier in John Wick: Chapter 2, picked Dark Souls as one of his Five Brilliant Things in an interview with British comedian Russell Howard<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Serafinowicz spoke passionately of his love for Dark Souls in the interview, explaining in great detail how its infamous difficulty makes it one of the most rewarding video games ever created. \u201cOnce that clicks, it’s like, oh my god, this is the game I’ve been waiting for my whole life,\u201d he said. \u201cIt teaches you that no obstacle is insurmountable. And it’s just the most satisfying game that I’ve ever played. And there’s a thing about all these games, once you play them and if they click for you, you don’t want to play any other game. And I just haven’t.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Serafinowicz went on to explain how he landed one of the most iconic roles in the Dark Souls series and, later, Elden Ring: the male character’s dying sounds and pain grunts. He said that he basically bullied his way into a voice acting role in Dark Souls 2, having loved the first so much. FromSoftware cast him as the voice behind Mild-Mannered Pate, but he also ended up doing something far more important\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cI eventually got in touch with the software company and said, \u2018Look, I hear you’re making Dark Souls 2.\u2019 And I couldn’t have been more excited that they were making another one. And I said, \u2018Look, I’m an actor. I’m good at voices. I’d love to be a voice in the game.\u2019 And I kind of bullied my way into being\u2026 I played a character in the game and they don’t have big, huge cutscenes and loads of dialogue blah blah blah and dialogue trees\u2026. kind of boring, right? Just like just these little kind of bits, you know? And so I played this character in Dark Souls 2.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut far more thrillingly for me, they asked me to provide the exertion noises for if you played as a male character, right? So all the, ‘when you die,’ which is often in these games. I play Elden Ring now and they’ve kept my sounds in all the subsequent games.<\/p>\n

\u201cI always forget if when I pick it up and have a little go and I die it’s like me right? It’s a weird way to be immortalized in this. It’s one of my proudest achievements.\u201d<\/p>\n

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At this point Serafinowicz revealed how he went from doing voices on Dark Souls and Elden Ring to starring in the Elden Ring movie. It turns out it all came from a chance encounter with writer and director Alex Garland \u2014 also a Dark Souls and Elden Ring superfan \u2014 and a friendship that followed.<\/p>\n

\u201cQuite a few years ago we were in the same reception area, I was going for an audition. He had some kind of meeting there. Didn’t know him, but he came over and introduced himself to me and was like, \u2018You’re Peter Serafinowicz aren’t you?\u2019 I said, \u2018Yeah, you’re Alex Garland.\u2019 \u2018Yeah, I’m a big fan.\u2019 He was like, \u2018You like video games, don’t you?\u2019 And I said, \u2018Well, I like one video game.\u2019 \u2018It’s Dark Souls, right?\u2019 And I said, \u2018Yeah, yeah, yeah,\u2019 because I’d talked about it a bit. And he said, \u2018I’m just the biggest Dark Souls fan.\u2019 And we were just enthusing about all these different aspects of this wonderful game, and we became friends based on this little interaction, right?<\/p>\n

\u201cHe had to go into a meeting and I left my phone number at reception. I said, \u2018Could you give this to Alex Garland when he comes out? It was like a sort of date, you know. And so we became friends. Anyway, fast forward to now, Alex is currently directing Elden Ring the movie, and I’m in it! I’m in it! I just can’t believe my luck. I just can’t believe that, that it’s like, wow, dude. Wow, man!\u201d<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s a fun full circle moment for Serafinowicz, who said Dark Souls and Elden Ring fans love that he\u2019s behind the FromSoftware death noises. \u201cOne of the other cast in it, I met him the other day when I went for a costume fitting. He also is a big fan of these games. And I told him this story and then I was doing my death noise and he was like, \u2018Oh, dude. Oh my god.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Then, after delivering a quite wonderful FromSoftware death noise to close out the interview, Serafinowicz added: \u201cAnd it says, \u2018You died.\u2019 It\u2019s so funny, right? You died. Ha ha ha ha!\u201d<\/p>\n

Alex Garland\u2019s live-action adaptation of FromSoftware\u2019s masterful, 30-million selling video game hits theaters on March 3, 2028. According to The Hollywood Reporter<\/u><\/a>, Elden Ring is A24’s most ambitious project ever, with a budget “well over $100 million.” That makes it a more expensive production than the likes of Marty Supreme and Alex Garland’s own Civil War.<\/p>\n

The cast is headlined by Cailee Spaeny (Alien: Romulus, Civil War, Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery), Ben Whishaw (Q in James Bond films Skyfall, Spectre, and No Time to Die, and the voice of Paddington Bear), and Nick Offerman (Parks and Recreation, The Last of Us).<\/p>\n

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