Epic Video games has forged Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 actor Ben Starr as a key in-game Fortnite character, following within the footsteps of Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, Brie Larsen and Joel McHale.
Starr’s flip as dashing Clair Obscur hero Verso is arguably his most well-known position up to now, and earned him a second nomination for finest performer at each final yr’s Sport Awards and the forthcoming BAFTA Sport Awards. You may additionally have heard his vocal skills as Clive in Last Fantasy 16 and Prometheus in Hades 2.
Now, Starr’s set to star in Fortnite as The Customer, one of many sport’s key NPC characters who will lastly rejoin the battle royale mode’s storyline (and converse!) later this month.
The Customer is certainly one of Fortnite’s heroic Seven, a band of intergalactic heroes who usually flip as much as save the day throughout its memorable reside occasions. Certainly, the character of the Customer was really the main focus of the sport’s very first reside occasion — 2018’s rocket launch — though he has seldom been heard, till now.
Through the years, gamers had been launched to extra of the Seven, together with its lead member The Basis (performed by Johnson), The Scientist (McHale), The Paradigm (Larsen), The Origin (Rahul Kohli), The Imagined (Cherami Leigh) and The Order (Laura Bailey).
After being written out of the sport’s story in 2022, gamers had been reintroduced to the workforce following the occasions of final yr’s climactic Zero Hour finale, which additionally featured a recap video establishing Fortnite’s present Chapter 7 period — providing a fast reminder of who the Seven had been and what they had been up in opposition to. You possibly can watch that once more simply above.
I’m becoming a member of Fortnite as The Customer.
I’m so excited to deliver again this iconic member of The Seven. I think about I’ll be very regular about it. pic.twitter.com/cUNBkr2gWG
— Ben Starr (@The_Ben_Starr) February 19, 2026
Alas, not the entire Seven are nonetheless standing, and Starr’s incarnation of The Customer is a unique one to the unique. In a intelligent twist, the sport’s OG mode, which gives Fortnite’s unique battle royale map, is taken into account a separate multiversal actuality. It is from right here that Starr’s model of The Customer will arrive within the coming days — following the OG model of that unique rocket occasion — so as to assist save the day and converse for the primary time.
As we speak’s Fortnite replace included datamined dialogue strains the place Starr’s voice is unmistakable. Lengthy-term Fortnite followers may also be happy to listen to the return of the Seven’s AI assistant AMIE, who feels like she is as soon as once more voiced by the prolific voice actress Erica Lindbeck.
“I am becoming a member of Fortnite as The Customer,” Starr confirmed right this moment on Twitter/X. “I am so excited to deliver again this iconic member of The Seven. I think about I will be very regular about it.”
Picture credit score: Ben Starr
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