Eman Ayaz, the actress people think played Farah in the Prince of Persia: Sands of Time remake, said she found out the game was canceled online, just like everyone else.

Last week she had the saddest moment in her work life.

Her brother sent her a message to check if she was fine. She was confused, so he shared a news link. Then she saw it was stopped for good. Ayaz said she was completely shocked.

Ayaz is 26 years old. She did not say the name of the game because of a promise not to talk about it. She did not mention the company or the game title. But the dates line up. The company said last week they canceled the Prince of Persia: Sands of Time remake. Ayaz is said to have shared Prince of Persia posts on her X account before. People on Reddit think so, even if those posts are gone now.

We were all really looking forward to it being released this year

In her video, Ayaz said this job changed her life. There are not many big parts for people like her, Canadian Pakistanis. They are hard to cast. She got the role three years ago after a tough tryout. She planned to use the game’s release to move to the US. It was her big chance, but now it is gone.

I have given the last three years of my life to this game, Ayaz said. She even acted with a hurt foot. She waited and waited for the release day when she could finally speak about it. She made ads for it just a couple months ago. We were all excited for it this year. Finding out like this felt like a sudden bad shock.

Since the game is canceled, Ayaz cannot say her name is linked to it publicly. It is just as if it never existed, she said. That is hard to understand after it was her whole life for so long. This game was real, even if no one else saw it.

The company said they canceled the Sands of Time remake last week. It was part of big changes. They shut two studios, stopped six games, and put off others. The Sands of Time was the only one they named. They said the games did not meet new quality rules or fit their pickier list. But this remake had problems for a long time. It came out in 2020 and got delayed many times.

The changes made the company’s stock price drop by a third. That is the lowest in 15 years. Workers in France, where the company is based, may go on strike. This is over a plan for people to leave jobs on their own.