Voice actor who played Ada Wong in the Resident Evil 4 remake wipes her Instagram after harassment
Resident Evil's recurring corporate spy Ada Wong has been portrayed by multiple voice actors over the years, and in the recent RE4 remake was played by Lily Gao, who previously had a cameo as Ada in the live-action movie Welcome to Raccoon City. Her performance in RE4 hasn't been well-received by fans, who filled her Instagram comments with insults. Gao disabled comments on her account, and then either hid or deleted all of her posts except one.
You can see screenshots of some of those over-the-top comments(opens in new tab) on Twitter, tantrums in text form like, «You ruined the remake, i feel like i just wasted my money» and «Your voice acting was horrible in the re4remake… it sounded super stiff and there was nothing seductive about it? It didnt fit at all omfg i hope they dont hire you as adas voice actor for another game».
Fans have said her performance sounds «bored» and «lifeless», but whatever you think about someone's acting, the idea of tracking down a voice actor on social media to tell her she pissed in your cornflakes is completely baffling to everyone outside the echo chamber of fandom.
It's not as if someone at Capcom chose Gao by accident or forgot to direct her during the recording. In previous Resident Evil games, Ada's lines were delivered with exaggerated seductiveness that crossed the line into camp, while in the RE4 remake she sounds detached and professional as part of its overall shift toward more grounded protagonists. It's there in the script: when Leon asks who her employer is, remake Ada says «I never work and tell,» a phrase you cannot possibly purr seductively like the original's «I never kiss and tell.»
More worthy of criticism is the way the audio quality drops noticeably on her lines in
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