The voice behind Princess Zelda breaks down what makes the iconic princess so legendary in TheLegendofZelda: Tears of the Kingdom.
For 37 years, the Legend of Zelda series has held its place as gaming’s most important franchises. It carries the same gravitas as classic literature, with several entries in the series feeling like canonical classics that should be in the syllabus of any video game course. It’s a collection of foundational tales that helped build what an adventure game plays like, but also what a fundamental hero’s journey story looks like in the medium.
With The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, the character is more nuanced than she’s ever been. To better understand what’s so different about the modern iteration of the character, I spoke to Patricia Summersett, the voice behind Zelda in Breath of the Wild, Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity, and now Tears of the Kingdom. Summersett shared her own read on the character, painting a portrait of a regal science nerd struggling with her own power in a dangerous world she’s intent on protecting.
“My background is theater, so I approach everything from a script. And from there it makes sense to figure out what impulses come out of you,” Summersett tells Digital Trends. “You draw from so many different sources when you put characters together. I think those initial buildings of Zelda for me were an amalgam of Emilia Clarke in Game of Thrones, Emma Watson as Hermione Granger, Claire Danes in Princess Mononoke.
While outside pop culture would create an early touchpoint, Summersett would still keep her focus on the rich, sometimes complicated history of Hyrule when building her voice. Through that exploration, she began to discover what’s helped the series remain so consistently timeless over the past 37 years and use that to shape Zelda herself.
“What’s nice that’s kept in different versions of her is that she has a regalness to her,” Summersett says. “She’s very gracious and regal, and also has a great sense of humor when she’s allowed to show it. Those are really wonderful character points that you can latch onto and bring forward. Those are things I connect to as a person.”
“What’s driving every character are basic human needs,” she says. “She obviously has deep love for her parents and an unrequited ability to spend enough time with them. She wants to make people proud. She spends a lot of time, I think, being very lonely and is desperately in love with nature. She has a super strong sense of duty to protect a kingdom that she doesn’t know if she’ll be able to protect.
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