Bayonetta voice actor was actually offered £13,000 for role says new report

metro.co.uk:

The controversy surrounding Bayonetta 3 has only got messier, with sources refuting the original voice actor’s claims regarding payment.

Over the weekend, Hellena Taylor, the original voice actor for the titular star of PlatinumGames’ Bayonetta series, took to Twitter to explain why she hadn’t reprised the role for the upcoming three-quel.

The long and short of it is that she claims PlatinumGames only offered her $4,000 (roughly £3,500) for the job. Given it’s a pretty paltry sum for the lead character in a Nintendo funded series this led to calls from Taylor for a boycott and fervent conversations surrounding the poor treatment of voice actors in general.

However, a recent report may have shed new light on the situation and has only made things murkier, as it suggests that Taylor’s account isn’t wholly accurate. In fact, it’s claimed she was offered three to four times more than she claims.

It’s said that PlatinumGames wanted to bring Taylor in for at least five sessions, with each one paying $3,000 to $4,000 for four hours. At minimum, this would mean the total payment for Taylor’s reprisal would have been $15,000 (just over £13,300).

Taylor pushed for an undisclosed six figure sum, plus royalties (something that voice actors rarely ever get for video game voicework), but PlatinumGames turned that down and chose to audition for a new actor. The company did offer Taylor a cameo role in Bayonetta 3, but she declined.

This is according to Bloomberg, which obtained the information from two anonymous sources familiar with the negotiations, as well as documentation. VGC has also corroborated the report and claims to have also seen confirming documentation.

One source has claimed that the $15,000 offer was significantly more than