It was a tough Thursday for IO Interactive and ol’ Jimmy B, as the reveal of 007 First Light’s first villain, played by singer Lenny Kravitz, leaked ahead of its intended drop during The Game Awards. Sometimes the contents of these things can’t be contained by YouTube scheduling tools or, in the case of Kravitz’s villain Bawma, human-made fabrics—as Andy noted in our initial news story, Bawma’s “spectacularly chiselled abs” are on prominent display in the trailer.
And yes, they’re the real deal.
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IO worked with Kravitz to define the look of the character and his fashion, too.
“He’s larger than life, and when we were designing Aleph, this dangerous cesspool of crime and shady dealings, among these husks of rotting corpses of ships, a very dangerous but adventurous place, we knew we needed a character with a vibrant personality who could feel larger than life. He brought that, and you’ll see it with the costume: he feels like a rockstar leader of this place, and we were refining the character and designing costumes with Lenny over a few months to land this larger than life moment for the game but also for us as a studio.”
