It takes lots of work to design a personality, especially a personality with as much history as Castlevania’s Dracula. Actor Robert Carlyle helped put his stamp at the iconic villain, or even altered his design for Konami’s Lords of Shadow series.

During a sit interview with actor Robert Carlyle and producer Dave Cox, both spoke of the evolution of the design of Dracula during the series.

“i did not get to work out any character designs or art for the sport before the performance,” said Carlyle, “i feel that Dave and the team brought me on board to essentially give something of myself to the project instead of just, ‘okay, say the lines this form, and check out to get them within 2.4 seconds.’ It was never like that. It was quite an organic process. They were really open to interpretation, and that they gave me various leeway to offer this performance loads of gravitas and emotional weight that we thought it needed.”

Left, Robert Carlyle, A.K.A. Dracula, middle, Ben Reeves, and right, Dave Cox, Lords of Shadow 2 producer.

“The nature actually changed much once Robert was on board,” said Cox. “There’s actually somewhat of Robert within the character. Once we originally designed Gabriel, he was way more of a large muscly, Conan-type character. When Robert came on board we realized that we wanted to make him a section more of an everyman and a more realistic character. Once Robert did his performance then we began to tweak him much more. In point of fact, we’re still tweaking the nature usually each day to take a look at and get him to slot the performance that Robert has done.”

“But as you’ll find, physically we glance almost a similar.” added Carlyle.

Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 comes out this winter, try out our recent preview of the sport here.