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At Telltale we tended to do a lot of our casting last minute without a ton of time for a traditional audition process. That means we would typically cast actors by saying "You know who I bet would be good in this role? [insert actor name here]. Send 'em an email." These actors would usually be either folks we had worked with before on other projects or recommendations from other actors we were working with.

So how did Ashley become part of our roster?

Well, back in 2013 when we were working on "Tales from the Borderlands", we needed an actor to play Gortys the robot and trying to cast that part had been a nightmare. We'd tried about a zillion different personalities and ideas and gender flips and just couldn't land anything that worked.

Finally in a last ditch effort we decided to just make Gortys female-coded and as adorable as possible in contrast to the ugly and crude world of Borderlands. But who to cast? Luckily, Troy Baker (who was playing Rhys), recommended Ashley, who he had just finished working with on "Last of Us" and said she would crush it. He was right, and she charmed the pants off everyone.

I am once again begging people to realize that AI checker doesn’t work. it’s never worked. it’s notoriously known to have flagged human-made works as AI and AI-generated works as human-made. and by feeding it people’s works, you are feeding more works to AI, because apparently the machine itself is AI.