Not way back, Madame Web and Anyone however You star Sydney Sweeney revealed in an IGN interview that, like many people, she grew up taking part in a Simpsons video game – however she didn't reveal which one it was.
Luckily, for the sake of journalism, we've adopted up and discovered that the Simpsons game in query was, actually, The Simpsons: Road Rage.
It all began just a few weeks in the past, when Sweeney talked about at a press junket for Madame Web that she grew up with a brother who performs video video games on a regular basis. When requested what her favourite game was, she mentioned, "we would play The Simpsons game," whereas miming a steering wheel. She additionally talked about taking part in Super Mario Bros. video games on her Nintendo DS when her co-star Isabela Merced introduced it up.
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Fans had been fast to take a position on simply what the Simpsons game could possibly be. As Gamespot famous, provided that Sweeney's 26 years previous, pure timing would place 2001's Road Rage and its non secular sequel Hit & Run as the apparent candidates. Other sites merely assumed Sweeney meant Hit & Run (and, to be truthful, so did I).
Luckily, we caught up with Sweeney to speak about her upcoming horror movie Immaculate and obtained the prospect to set the document straight.
"I want to say it was the racing game," she mentioned. With the assistance of my colleague Jeffrey Vega, she ultimately remembered that it was Road Rage.
"Road Rage! Because it was old, it was on the Xbox," she mentioned. And what character did she play as?
"I always liked Homer," she mentioned.
Well, there you have got it.
Sydney Sweeney clarifies The Simpsons video game she cherished rising up: It was The Simpsons: Road Rage!
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Sweeney's one in all many followers with fond reminiscences of The Simpsons' car-based game variations, though it doesn't seem like we'll be getting a sequel to 2003's Hit & Run anytime quickly. Last 12 months, Hit & Run's developers revealed in an interview on the MinnMax YouTube channel {that a} follow-up was within the works, however by no means got here to fruition for no matter motive.
"It was just a really bizarre decision," government producer John Melchior mentioned of the sequel being tabled. "I'll never understand it. Most people on the production level never understood it."
Sweeney will subsequent be seen in Immaculate, a horror movie that she stars in and produced. It debuted on the SXSW Film Festival final week, and can hit theaters on March 22.
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Alex Stedman is a Senior News Editor with IGN, overseeing leisure reporting. When she's not writing or enhancing, you’ll find her studying fantasy novels or taking part in Dungeons & Dragons.