Jennifer Hale didn't just voice the female version of Commander Shepard across three games in 2007-2013's Mass Effect trilogy. (And yes, I'm including the Citadel DLC's release year in there.) Her performance, not unlike Mark Meer's, has become truly iconic across the gaming industry.
Fans hear "Mass Effect," and it's hard not to immediately conjure up both voice actors' exemplary voice work. Which is far from the only reason we tend to take note when Hale speaks up; the veteran VA is intelligent, insightful, and always worth hearing out. But it is indeed through looking back at the trilogy that Hale's latest insight stems from, and if there's one thing that most thoroughly captured us from this conversation, it was her memory of a mightily powerful scene.
“The goodbye scenes with Garrus pretty much slaughtered me," Hale told Polygon as part of a wider-ranging interview just after praising another goodbye scene - the one with Shepard's mentor, Admiral Anderson. In fact, let's talk a little about that first:
“I got to hear [Anderson actor Keith David], and I got to act back and forth with him in that way. And that magic, when you get to have...
