Charlie Cox responds to ‘Clair Obscur: Expedition 33’ Best Performance backlash

    'Clair Obscur: Expedition 33'

    Charlie Cox has responded to the backlash around his Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Best Performance nomination at The Game Awards 2025.

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    Last week, Charlie Cox was nominated at The Game Awards for Best Performance in recognition of his portrayal of Gustave in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, the leader of a rag-tag expedition to defeat the murderous Paintress and provide safety for the remaining citizens of Lumière.

    However some fans weren’t happy with the nomination after Cox revealed he only spent one four-hour session recording his lines. “I’m not a gamer [and] I haven’t played it. People keep saying how amazing it is and congratulations but I feel like a total fraud,” he revealed earlier this year.

    Fellow Best Performance nominee Troy Baker previously told NME that playing Indiana Jones in The Great Circle almost “broke” him while Konatsu Kato said she spent so long in the world of Silent Hill f for Hinako Shimizu she “felt my own sanity slipping”.

    Responding to a fan at a recent convention about The Game Awards 2025, Cox said: “I’m thrilled for this nomination, I’ve said this before and I think it’s important to say [again] – there’s an amazing French actor called Maxence Cazorla who did almost all of the motion capture for that role.”

    “Any nomination or credit I get, I really have to give to him because I believe the performance of that character is really down to him,” he continued. “My voice was just part of that process.”