Hellena Taylor, the unique voice actress of Bayonetta, has launched a sequence of movies on Twitter encouraging followers to boycott the following game as she feels the fee she was provided for Bayonetta 3 was an “insult”.
In the movies posted to Taylor’s Twitter account, she claims that she was requested to re-audition for the function of Bayonetta within the upcoming Bayonetta 3 and “passed with flying colours” however was provided an “insulting” fee. She then wrote straight to developer PlatinumGames’ founder and Bayonetta sequence creator Hideki Kamiya, who stated that he “values greatly her contribution to the game” however then subsequently provided her a remaining flat fee of simply over £3,500 ($4,000).
Taylor says that this offer is “insulting” given the sequence’ success, as she identified that the franchise made an approximate £400million($450million) which doesn’t embody merchandise. After her seven-and-a-half years of coaching, three of these being on the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) with voice coach Barbara Berkery and four-and-a-half years being with Larry Moss in Los Angeles, Taylor stated she was simply asking Platinum to pay her what she is “worth” and a “decent, dignified, living wage.”
Taylor is asking the followers to boycott Bayonetta 3 and “instead, spend the money that you would have spent on this game donating it to charity.” Taylor says she is “more of a lover than a fighter” however that she is extra like Bayonetta than she thought. “I understand that boycotting this game is a personal choice and there are those that won’t and that is fine, but if you’re someone that cares about people, who cares about the world around you, who cares about who gets hurt with these financial decisions then I urge you to boycott this game.”
Friends, Worldlings, Bayonutters. Hear ye!#PlatinumGames #Nintendo #Bayonetta #Bayonetta3 #Bayonutters #Boycott #NintendoEurope #NintendoAmerica #NintendoJapan pic.twitter.com/h9lwiX2bBt
— Hellena Taylor (@hellenataylor) October 15, 2022
Taylor stated that she determined to urge followers to boycott the game so as to “stand up in solidarity with people all over the world who do not get paid properly for their talents,” earlier than discussing her psychological well being and stated that she “suffered from depression and anxiety” and have become “suicidal”. “I am afraid of the non-disclosure agreement. I can’t even afford to run a car.”
She stated that “Bayonetta always stands up for those with less power and stands up for what is right and in doing this you stand with her.”
Kamiya had beforehand posted a message to his personal Twitter saying, “Sad and deplorable about the attitude of untruth. That’s all I can tell now,” earlier than briefly disabling his Twitter account. It seems to be again once more now, as he then tweeted, “I’ve seen people repeatedly delete and reactivate their accounts for some time, but after actually doing it, I feel like I understand a little more… It’s a sense of liberation, isn’t it?”
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