Steven Ogg, the actor behind Trevor Philips in Grand Theft Auto 5, told a YouTuber he feels “nothing inside” about GTA 6 and that he has never played a videogame. In the short clip he instead urged the interviewer to read Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, saying “books are my thing.”
The exchange comes as Rockstar has been talking up GTA 6 ahead of its release next year, calling it the “largest game launch in history” in a recent report about the title’s scale and marketing. In a brief chat with YouTuber HarrisonShippp, Ogg was asked how excited he was for GTA 6. “I feel nothing inside,” he answered.
He followed up by clarifying his distance from games. “I’m not a gamer. I’ve never played a videogame, so I feel absolutely nothing,” Ogg said. The clip then turns to a suggestion someone gave him to play GTA 5, which Ogg countered by asking whether the interviewer knew Dostoevsky and recommending Crime and Punishment instead. “See? It’s the same thing. Books are my thing,” he added.
The brief conversation came across as a bit of a non sequitur, but it also highlights a boundary that some actors draw between their work and personal pastimes. Ogg has previously pushed back on fans treating him like Trevor off-set, and this exchange continued that trend.
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