James McAvoy was so hooked on Oblivion he had to burn the disc

You may know James McAvoy from his role as the younger Professor X in the X-Men series, or from other movies like Atonement or It: Chapter Two, or from that time he turned out to actually be quite good at baking on The Great British Bake-Off. More recently, he starred in timeloop adventure game 12 Minutes, which is why he’s in Forbes talking about videogames.

Turns out, as a younger and less famous actor, McAvoy played a lot of The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion. “That was a kind of game I’d always been into as a kid”, he said, “role-playing games, Zelda, Secret of Mana, all that kind of stuff. Like, I love fantasy role-playing games.”