Dubbing or voice actors in video games can mark an entire generation. Whether through starring roles in entire sagas or a single video game, some voices are unforgettable. But what if I told you that most recognizable voice of all in the videogameone that you have heard countless times without looking for it, is famous only for Two words? I speak of nothing less than Richard WellsBritish actor with more than 30 years of career, with a tremendous range of voice and who you know for being the voice of PEGI 18but you have never seen.
The British actor, who can proudly imitate tight British, Dutch, Indian or Australian accents, has been lending his voice to brands, video games, film and television since the 90s. In three decades of career, if you have seen the advertisements for Old Spice either Coca Cola; flown with British Airways; had a cell phone Siemens; or any trailer for an R-rated video game, you know it. The most notable thing is that, among all these, PEGI 18 is its most important role.
Millions of players have heard him, but almost no one knows Richard Wells
I was there last night TikTok, almost as usual in an unhealthy habit of not going to sleep without my dose of short videos, when I came across a tremendous voice. Yes, I was in front of the actor Richard Wells, born in 1948, and who had created an account on the social network not to boast about his success, much less to advertise, just to show several generations of players who is the one behind his most successful work, one where he only said two words.
@richardwells48
#richardthevoice #PEGI18
♬ original sound – Richard Wells
The actor, who goes by the username richardwells48, says that if we’ve ever heard “PEGI 18” in the last 15 years, we were actually hearing it from him. With a comical tone, the 75-year-old Briton comments that of his more than 10,000 jobs and its three decades of careerIronically, it is this age warning that many of us probably skipped when we were little, which has made him not just another voice, but “the voice” of an entire industry.
A video on TikTok with no less than 892,000 “likes” from players around the world and the enormous figure of 4 and a half million views that has made it a viral phenomenon. In fact, with my hand on my heart, I admit if it were not for the chance of the algorithm, I would not have discovered who the voice of PEGI 18 in English is.
But let’s play a game: Would you know who is the voice of PEGI in Spain? As a good classification system at the European level, the ISFE has worked to adapt the warning to the languages of the union, and in Spain that task fell to Dani Lloret. The Catalan voice actor, who began his career on the radio in 1988, has been voicing PEGI in Spain since 2007. From PEGI 3 to 18, those of us who speak Spanish owe a lot to Lloret.
