There's a bit of controversy going on now surrounding Bayonetta 3. You may have heard that a new VA is voicing Bayonetta, but do you know why?
According to Hellena Taylor ( The OG voice actor for the character) after re auditioning for the role of Bayonetta, she was only offered a measly 4000 USD to reprise her role as the character.
Now this is just nuts. Hellena is calling for a boycott of Bayonetta 3 because of the Platinum Games action towards her, and in all honesty I can 100% understand why she is upset.
It's no shock to anyone that VAs are underpaid but only being offered 4000 bucks to voice the main character of a gaming franchise that made over 400 million is just nuts!
Hellena posted 3 2 minute long videos over on Twitter about the situation, and in the video below I go over them and share my thoughts and opinions about this situation with you guys!
Just a couple of clarifications to things I said in the video:
At the time of recording the video, I thought that Platinum Games was a child company of Nintendo, it is why you hear me refer to Nintendo a few times instead of Platinum Games.
I know very little about VA, so the 50k number I gave was going off of what the average salary for an experienced VA is, which is between the ranges of 100k - 200k according to back stage.