After Prince of Persia: Sands of Time Remake Cancelation, Actress Says She's Lost 3 Years of Work and Found Out via the Internet

Actress Eman Ayaz has said she's mislaid 3 years of enactment successful a "life-changing role," conscionable days aft Ubisoft canceled its long-awaited Prince of Persia: Sands of Time Remake.

"So hi, my sanction is Eman, I'm an actor, and past week I experienced the astir devastating infinitesimal of my career," Ayaz said successful a video connection posted online today. "I'm inactive nether NDA truthful I'm going to effort my champion to talk arsenic vaguely arsenic imaginable astir the details, and I anticipation you understand."

At nary constituent does Ayaz specifically accidental the crippled she worked connected was Prince of Persia: Sands of Time Remake, but the histrion has besides retweeted comments from those who person linked her to the relation of Farah successful the game, seemingly making the transportation clear.

The astir devastating infinitesimal of my acting career: https://t.co/ZzbWftGL1t

"Three years agone I booked a life-changing relation connected a life-changing project," Ayaz began. "It was a rigorous audition process, including a self-tape audition, an in-person callback, and a chemistry work that I had to alert retired of the metropolis for. When I got the relation I retrieve crying my eyes out.

"I've spent the past 3 years getting to cognize the squad which has go similar a household to me. I've watched it turn done countless stages of improvement and I've waited and waited for it to yet beryllium released truthful I could speech astir it. And this week, I recovered retired done the net that the task was canceled."

Ayaz says she was archetypal contacted by her member who had seen the quality of the game's cancelation via an online article. Ubisoft confirmed it had canned its Prince of Persia: The Sans of Time Remake past week, arsenic portion of a wider reorganization that featured layoffs astatine 3 improvement studios, the closure of 2 more, and the shutdown of 5 different crippled projects.

"I was successful full shock," Ayaz continued. "Just 2 months agone I filmed selling for this project, everything had been moving smoothly and that was the past I had heard. We were each looking guardant to it being released this year, truthful it felt similar an affectional whiplash to abruptly find this retired successful specified a random way."

Indeed, a study precocious past twelvemonth suggested Ubisoft's Prince of Persia: Sands of Time Remake was yet conscionable a fewer months away, aft archetypal being announced successful 2020. The task was past rebooted, with its astir caller incarnation having been successful improvement since aboriginal 2023.

"When I initially booked this role, what it said to maine was that each the sacrifices I had made, going against my parents' advice, pursuing my dreams, each the heartbreaks I'd had on the way, each the adjacent calls, each the rejections, they yet had added up to something," Ayaz added, discussing the idiosyncratic toll the cancelation had taken.

Ayaz said she'd turned down different occupation oppurtunities during the process and worked connected the occupation portion recovering from an wounded arsenic she had been passionate astir not missing out. "It was the champion show of my career, and present nary 1 volition ever spot it."

A Canadian citizen, Ayaz said she had planned to use for a U.S. enactment visa based connected having the crippled connected her CV, thing she tin nary longer bash arsenic she is incapable to officially admit her enactment connected it. And arsenic idiosyncratic with Pakistani heritage, Ayaz said the cancelation had been yet different setback aft moving "twice arsenic hard arsenic non-marginalized actors to find abstraction successful the industry." She added: "It's an upward conflict and it's going to proceed to beryllium that way. It's similar you deliberation you had your ft connected a ledge, and it's crumbled. And you person to commencement again, and it's conscionable arsenic steep."

For its part, Ubisoft told Prince of Persia fans that contempt six years of work, the crippled was inactive excessively acold distant from being acceptable to money immoderate further. "We weren't capable to scope the level of prime you deserve," the institution said successful a statement, "and continuing would person required much clip and concern than we could responsibly commit."

"Sadly the amusement manufacture isn't conscionable astir entertainment," Ayaz concluded, "it's astir guaranteeing a currency flow. And that means making decisions that dainty people's lives arsenic collateral damage, and creation arsenic disposable content... This task existed, adjacent if the satellite ne'er got to spot it. So galore talented artists devoted countless hours to marque this happen. And that doesn't conscionable disappear, it'll beryllium successful our hearts forever, arsenic fricking corny arsenic that sounds... The lone mode these stories past is if the assemblage demands them."

Tom Phillips is IGN's News Editor. You tin scope Tom astatine [email protected] oregon find him connected Bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social