If you are one of the many who’ve played even a short bit of Resident Evil Requiem, you’ll have come across The Girl. She’s Requiem’s lumbering Shadow Ghost who seems to take great pleasure in chasing Grace around in the dark (I was less enthusiastic, and spent a great deal of time trying to squeeze by her while emitting a high pitch squeal I’m told made me sound like a kettle constantly about to come to the boil but never quite getting there).

Anyway, while I shake off that past traumatic experience, I’ll let you in on a bit of background information shared by the character’s voice actor, Delanie Nicole Gill. Apparently, to get the voice for The Girl, Gill drank copious amounts of milk to thicken up the consistency of her spit. This was to get her “gurgling” and “clicking” noises just right.

“We did two four-hour sessions, and I went through two jugs of milk around this big [roughly the size of a gallon] to thicken up my spit,” Gill revealed during a Resident Evil Requiem panel at MegaCon Orlando 2026 (thanks, MiamiGameHunter).

“I had to lay a towel on my lap. Because of the way my mouth was arranged, my bottom lip was down, and it was just dripping in my lap.”

I popped on a YouTube video of Requiem’s The Girl chasing Grace as I wrote this piece, and now I know how much thick milky saliva was involved in making the character so damn unnerving, I really can’t unhear it. I wonder if Gill will ever look at milk the same way again? I am not sure I will…

I do have a good milk-based joke for you, though. Why do cows have hooves? Because they lactose!

Right, back to it. Milk stories aside, Resident Evil Requiem has been going from strength to strength since its release in February, and recently celebrated 6m sales across platforms. This milestone cemented its place as the fastest-selling game in the survival horror series’ history.

Earlier this month, Capcom announced a new story expansion, which will “delve deeper into the world of Requiem”, was in development.