GTA 5 Michael actor slammed for criticizing Red Dead Redemption 2\u2019s Dutch Rockstar GamesGrand Theft Auto 5\u2019s Michael actor, Ned Luke, is facing backlash for criticizing the performance of Benjamin Byron Davis as Dutch in Red Dead Redemption 2. GTA and RDR are Rockstar Games\u2019 biggest franchises with meaty titles deserving of Game of the Year awards, but the harmony between the fandoms has been fractured by one of the game\u2019s actors. Ned Luke, who plays Michael De Santa in GTA V, was recently asked to explain why he \u201chates\u201d Dutch, one of Red Dead Redemption 2\u2019s main characters and revealed why. \u201cDon\u2019t like the character or the performance,\u201d Luke said, instantly igniting a firestorm on social media. GTA 5\u2019s Michael under fire for RDR2 Dutch comments Across X, fans began to rally against Ned Luke, saying that he was in the wrong for being so negative towards a fellow actor\u2019s performance. \u201cNot liking Dutch as a character is fine but the performance? Straight up insulting to the actor that portrayed Dutch,\u201d one baffled user said. \u201cNed Luke just keeps taking Ls recently.\u201d \u201cThis is one of the worst takes of all time. Criticizing the character is one thing but saying the actor\u2019s performance is bad is next level crazy,\u201d echoed GTA 6 content creator Detective. \u201cDutch is one of the best characters Rockstar has ever created, and Benjamin\u2019s delivery is a great part of that achievement.\u201d YouTuber LegacyKillaHD also took issue with Ned\u2019s remarks, saying how he personally prefers the performance of Dutch over that of Michael De Santa. \u201cAlso really bizarre decision to make this trash disrespectful opinion public, especially of a fellow actor,\u201d he added. In response to the backlash, Ned Luke defended his statement and urged those upset with him to take a breather and relax. No it does’t. It states very clearly that I didn’t like the performance. To be clear, there are enough of my own performances I don’t like as well. That’s how it goes. It has nothing to do with liking or disliking an actor. \u2014 Ned Luke (@ned_luke) February 20, 2024 \u201cChill out people. I didn\u2019t like it. Sorry. Was he a great character yeah prolly tremendous. But I don\u2019t like it. I didn\u2019t like Al Pacino in Scent of a Women and I didn\u2019t like Dustin Hoffman in Rainman. But they won Oscars,\u201d he reiterated. \u201cBen do what he was supposed to do I wasn\u2019t enthralled.\u201d Luke further added that he has plenty of his own performances that he didn\u2019t like as well and that his comments had \u201cnothing to do with liking or disliking an actor.\u201d In any case, the GTA 5 star doesn\u2019t think that his performance or Benjamin Byron Davis\u2019 when GTA 6 is finally released, because, according to Luke, it will \u201cbeat everything.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
GTA 5 Michael actor slammed for criticizing Red Dead Redemption 2\u2019s Dutch Rockstar GamesGrand Theft Auto 5\u2019s Michael actor, Ned Luke, is facing backlash for criticizing the performance of Benjamin Byron Davis as Dutch in Red Dead Redemption 2. GTA and RDR are Rockstar Games\u2019 biggest franchises with meaty titles deserving of Game of the […]<\/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-87871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87871","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=87871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}