Zelda Movie's Link Actor Wasn't Born When the Wii Launched, Was Only 4 for BOTW Reveal

Benjamin Evan Ainsworth, the British teenager cast as Link in Nintendo and Sony’s live-action Legend of Zelda movie, is young enough that he wasn’t even born when the original Wii console hit shelves. Ainsworth was born in September 2008, making him just 16 at the time of casting, and he was not alive when the Nintendo Wii was released. The gap becomes even starker when you line his age up against The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, the 2017 open-world classic many expect the film to draw heavily from.