'Even the way my hands are positioned now,' she mentions through a Zoom screen, 'they have a position like that in the game.' Though she says the crew did record her walking, falling, jumping, running, and talking. That's not to say Balinska herself was parkouring in her motion-capture suit.

(She aptly calls him 'Cuff.') That includes parkour magic, which is how Freya traverses the treacherous environments of Athia. As Frey, she can cast an array of spells, with the help of a sentient cuff attached to her arm. It's not lost on Balinska that she's coming off of a video game series adaptation to debut her role in a video game. Netflix Ella Balinska's Jade Wesker wields a chainsaw in Netflix's 'Resident Evil.' So I would say, yeah, it's part of the process.' So video games, it's like, physically I'm not really doing anything, but at least my brain's still active a little bit as I wind down, and eventually it calms me. 'It's hard to just be there in that heightened state and then immediately shut off. For some reason I'm just very much drawn to those characters of recent,' Balinska explains. 'The projects that I've done thus far very action-adventure, intense, protagonist-oriented. She tells EW this while in Utah for the Sundance Film Festival, a day before the video game that she now stars in, Forspoken, comes out.

She finds games help her decompress while on the job. The 26-year-old Londoner isn't just a gamer.

Before, I was carrying my PlayStation 4 in my hand luggage and you can only imagine the nightmare that it was going through security.' Changer,' Balinska says, 'especially for me. A friend of Ella Balinska, the star of Charlie's Angels and Resident Evil, gave her the ultimate Christmas gift: a tricked out suitcase for her PlayStation with a screen inside so she can play on the go.

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