Charlie Cox Lands Game Awards Nod for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 — Then Gives the Credit to His Motion Capture Double

Charlie Cox is having a nice little awards run for voicing Gustave in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. But instead of soaking it up, he pointed the spotlight at someone else: the guy in the suit actually doing the physical performance.

Cox redirects the credit

Talking about his Best Performance nomination at The Game Awards 2025 during a recent press conference (a clip circulated on November 22, 2025), Cox made it very clear he thinks the recognition should go to French actor Maxence Cazorla, who handled the character’s body and movement on the stage where it actually happens — the motion capture stage.

"I am thrilled for this nomination. I have said this before, and I think it is important to say that there is an amazing French actor by the name of Maxence Cazorla, who did almost all of the motion capture for that role. So any nomination or any credit I get, I really have to give to him, because I believe the performance of that character is really down to him, and my voice was just part of that process."

So who is Maxence Cazorla, exactly?

Cox is talking about the performer who gave Gustave his physicality — and not just Gustave. Cazorla played multiple characters in Clair Obscur, providing both the motion capture and the French-language performance for them. If you are wondering why this gets confusing fast, it is because games often split the role across different people: face models, body performers, voice actors. Clair Obscur leaned on Cazorla a lot.

• Gustave — motion capture and French voice
• Esquie — motion capture and French voice
• Verso — motion capture and French voice
• Renoir — motion capture and French voice

Where this bumps into awards rules

The Game Awards’ Best Performance category is meant to honor an individual for voice-over acting, motion work, and/or performance capture. In practice, the names you usually see on the ballot are the voice actors — sometimes they are also the ones in the mocap suit, like Christopher Judge as Kratos or Melina Juergens as Senua. In Clair Obscur’s case, Cox is the voice English-speaking audiences hear as Gustave, but he is arguing the core of the character comes from Cazorla’s physical performance.

Also worth noting: this is not happening in a vacuum. Cox has picked up multiple nominations this season for Gustave, and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 just took home Ultimate Game of the Year at the Golden Joystick Awards 2025. So, yeah — the game has heat, and Cox using that spotlight to call out the on-the-ground performer is a good look, and honestly, overdue credit for a craft that too often gets tucked under the fold.