Sometimes a video game is not just fiction but an emotion and people feel what the character is feeling. When the actors bring these characters to life they also need to get emotionally invested and live these experiences in a way.
Dutch Van Der Linde actor Benjamin Byron Davis from Red Dead Redemption 2 has revealed that it was hard for him to get through the filming of the game’s final scene without tearing up and experiencing it over and over again.
In an interview with Davis, he explained what it was like filming the climactic scene of the video game and said “When Arthur is on the cliff with Micah and I step on his hand, there was a raked stage – I guess you’d call it – that I had to walk up in a way, and Pete [Blomquist], he didn’t quite die in front of me,”
“So he’s wheezing and coughing. Peter Blomquist is screaming at me as Micah to come with him – and Dutch at the moment is realizing his failure,” he added
“And I turned up, I turned my back on both of them and I walked up this rake and I stood there as this scene continued to play out without me and I just stood there and I just cried my eyes out for three or four takes,” he concluded.
Well, we feel the same and just thinking about this scene again makes us feel emotional and we surely deserve Red Dead 3.
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Red Dead Redemption 2 Update (2026)
Updated July 2026. Benjamin Byron Davis, the actor behind both the voice and motion-capture performance of Dutch van der Linde, has continued speaking fondly about the role years after Red Dead Redemption 2’s 2018 release. He’s said that if a live-action Red Dead adaptation is ever made, he’d want no one else to play Dutch but himself, and he remains closely engaged with the game’s fan community at conventions and interviews. As of 2026, no live-action Red Dead Redemption adaptation has been officially greenlit, and the original game continues to be cited as a benchmark for narrative writing and motion-capture performance in the industry.
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