

I had to go into a pizza place and call my brother. “He goes, ‘What would you want to do if everyone was dead and you didn’t have anyone you thought you had to do things for?’ The next day, I started running and just ran all day. You saw a side of life that was just not good.”Ī visit to see his brother in Florida to clear his head changed everything.

He soon found himself covering stories that wore him down emotionally. “I remember I went down to interview Al Gore and the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development with a camera on my shoulder and my mic out. “My first job was covering a bear stuck in a tree,” North said. After playing baseball at the University of North Carolina, North received a broadcast journalism degree from Emerson College and spent a year as a TV reporter in New York. North’s career almost took a very different turn. He’s an everyman character wrapped up in this suit.” “The funny thing is, when you take that suit off, he can bleed,” North said. And while Tony Stark may appear confident on the surface, North said there’s a more complex side to him. North is part of an ensemble cast that also includes Troy Baker, Lauren Bailey, Travis Willingham and Sandra Saad. As long as I stayed true to myself, that took a lot of the pressure off.” That was important to give a little hint of that. There are certain phrasings and ways of saying things that I did as a little homage to him without it being an impression. “I realized I can’t concern myself with being compared to RDJ,” North said. What would I be like if I had Jarvis? How do I play Tony Stark?”Īs North worked to put his own spin on the character, he found a way to recognize what came before him, without falling into trying to copy it. fan, but I had to make this Iron Man mine.

I didn’t know if I was going to get another iconic character to play. “Nathan Drake was my Indiana Jones,” North said. North has played several memorable characters, including Nathan Drake in the Uncharted series, but Tony Stark was an opportunity he couldn’t pass up. It’s fitting that one of the world’s most famous voice actors voices him in Marvel’s Avengers – Nolan North. There are few superheroes more well known than Tony Stark, also known as Iron Man. Nolan North plays Tony Stark in Marvel's Avengers game.
