Ryan says he "invoked his imagination" from growing up in Wales while playing Edward Kenway.

Swansea-born actor Matt Ryan returns as the playable protagonist Edward Kenway in Assassin's Creed: Black Flag Resynced The actor who plays the lead character in the new Assassin's Creed video game about pirates has said he "tapped into" his childhood in Wales for the role. Matt Ryan, from Swansea, was the Welsh-born playable protagonist Edward Kenway in the Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag video game in 2013, and took on the role using motion capture. An updated version of the game will be released on Thursday. The game follows Kenway, also from Swansea, as he sails to the Caribbean as a privateer looking for wealth, and evolves into a pirate, then assassin. Ryan said he "invoked his imagination" which he had as a child growing up in Wales running around and playing, while acting as the character. "Doing this game, I was doing a medium I've never worked before...motion capture, where you have the camera in front of your face on a helmet, and all the little dots on you," he told Behnaz Akhgar's BBC Radio Wales show. "It reminded me of when I was a kid growing up in Wales, running on the village green and down to the old mill. Matt Ryan explains how his Swansea accent influenced his Assassin's Creed character.