Helena Taylor, the original voice actress for BayonettaHe has posted a series of videos on Twitter encouraging fans to boycott the upcoming game as he is sorry for the fee he was offered. bayonet 3 it was an “insult”.
In the videos posted on Taylor’s Twitter accountclaims she was asked to re-audition for the role of Bayonetta in the upcoming bayonet 3 and “passed with flying colors”, but was offered an “insulting” rate. He then wrote directly to the founder of developer PlatinumGames and Bayonetta Series creator Hideki Kamiya said he “highly values his contribution to the game”, but later offered him a final flat fee of just over £3,500 ($4,000).
Taylor calls this offer “insulting” given the success of the series, as he noted that the franchise made an estimated £400 million ($450 million) which does not include merchandise. After seven and a half years of training, three of them at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) with voice coach Barbara Berkery and four and a half years with Larry Moss in Los Angeles. Taylor said that she was only asking Platinum to pay her what she is “worth” and a “decent, decent, living wage.”
Taylor is asking fans to boycott bayonet 3 and “instead, spend the money you would have spent on this game by donating it to charity.” Taylor says that she is “more of a lover than a fighter”, but that she is more like Bayonetta than she thought. “I understand that boycotting this game is a personal choice and there are those who won’t and that’s fine, but if you’re someone who cares about people, who cares about the world around you, who cares who gets hurt by these financial decisions, then I urge you to boycott this game.”
Friends, mundanes, Bayonutters. Listen!#PlatinumGames #Nintendo #Bayonetta #Bayonetta3 #Bayonutters #Boycott #NintendoEurope #NintendoAmerica #NintendoJapan pic.twitter.com/h9lwiX2bBt
— Helena Taylor (@hellenataylor) October 15, 2022
Taylor said he decided to urge fans to boycott the game to “stand up in solidarity with people around the world who are not being paid adequately for their talents”, before speaking about his mental health, saying that ” I suffered from depression.” and anxiety” and she became “suicidal”. “I am afraid of the confidentiality agreement. I can’t even afford to drive a car.”
She said that “Bayonetta always stands up for those with less power and stands up for what is right and by doing this, you stand with her.”
Kamiya had previously posted a message on his own Twitter that read, “Sad and deplorable for the falsehood attitude. That’s all I can say right now”, before temporarily disabling your twitter account. She seems to be back now, as she later tweeted, “I’ve seen people repeatedly delete and reactivate their accounts for some time, but after doing so, I feel like I understand a little more… It’s a liberating feeling. It is not like this?
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