Bayonetta voice actor responds to claims she\u2019s a \u201cliar and gold-digger\u201d PlatinumGamesVoice actor Hellena Taylor responded to accusations she\u2019s a \u201cgold-digger\u201d and a \u201cliar\u201d after reports said she was offered more money to reprise her role in Bayonetta 3 than she originally claimed. Hellena Taylor made headlines on October 15 when the voice actor released a statement calling for a boycott of Bayonetta 3, claiming she was offered $4,000 to come back for the game\u2019s third installment. Since then, it was revealed that Taylor rebuffed Platinum\u2019s offer to be recast in the role for $3-4k per voice session, which would total five sessions. Taylor countered the company with a six-figure offer, which Platinum declined. Now, Taylor is hitting back and offering a defense of her actions since her boycott became public. Bayonetta voice actor speaks out defending her \u201creputation\u201d On October 24, Hellena shared a post on social media targeted at people claiming she\u2019s a \u201cliar and gold-digger.\u201d She also explained her side of how negotiations went with Platinum, \u201cAs I posted on part three of my video thread. I explained that their first offer was too low. That offer was $10,000 total. Remember, this is a $450 million franchise.\u201d Taylor then said that she declined the company\u2019s offer even after receiving a $5,000 pay bump offer following a personal letter she wrote directly to PlatinumGames\u2019 Hideki Kamiya. She then finally declined to voice the Umbra Witch in Bayonetta 3. After hearing nothing for the next 11 months, she claims the company came back to her with an offer of $4,000 to voice \u201csome lines.\u201d Hellena also claims she never asked for $250,000 and was only asking for a \u201cfair, living wage.\u201d Despite her clarification, there is still confusion among fans as to what exactly went down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Bayonetta voice actor responds to claims she\u2019s a \u201cliar and gold-digger\u201d PlatinumGamesVoice actor Hellena Taylor responded to accusations she\u2019s a \u201cgold-digger\u201d and a \u201cliar\u201d after reports said she was offered more money to reprise her role in Bayonetta 3 than she originally claimed. Hellena Taylor made headlines on October 15 when the voice actor released […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}