Jones stated in a podcast interview, “In the game there’s these rival gangs. There’s Black gangs, Latino gangs. We recruited a guy who gets gang members, actual real gang members, like El Salvadoran gang dudes with amazing tattoos, one of which had literally gotten out of prison the day before.
“We get these guys in to record the gang characters because we don’t want a goofy LA actor who went to a fancy school trying to be a hard gang member. There’s nothing worse than that, so just go find the terrifying people and say ‘can you come in here please?’”
He went on to note that the actors balked at the written lines, so Jones encouraged them to ad lib instead.
Grand Theft Auto V will be released on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on the 17th September 2013. A PC version remains unannounced.
