100 Things You Never Knew About Resident Evil
6. Wide-Eyed
Despite being quite cutting edge for video games at the time, the live action footage in Resident Evil has always been hilarious.
The faces and voices of all the characters in the game were provided by different people so Charlie Kraslavsky may not have provided Chris' dialogue but he brought the character to life in the live action opening and ending. He dropped a load of incredible information about his very brief time working on the original Biohazard with the late, great Phillip J. Reed in his book on Resident Evil.
There was apparently a disagreement between Capcom staff about whether or not Chris should have stubble which ultimately landed on a "yes" until the team saw Charlie's attempts to grow it and then changed their mind, as well as the tale of Chris' actor leaving the set to roll around in puddles and wet gravel to dirty his white shirt for the game's ending sequence.
Perhaps the funniest is that it is, of course, his eye that is used as the title screen for the game. Kraslavsky recalls Japanese men telling him to open his eye "wider! Wider!" and him insisting that it was as wide as it went, in the end having to pull at the skin with his fingers to make the eye as wide as possible.
You'll never look at that title screen the same way again.