A week ago, news broke out from the former Voice Actress for Bayonetta, Hellena Taylor, sharing her story about her departure to continue voicing the titular character. The departure came with a explanation of several videos over at the actress' Twitter account, where she comments on the main issue being solely on under-payment towards voicing the character for the 3rd installment.

However, other reporters and insiders from the industry delved into the issue and have mentioned an omission in her statement.
The reporters were tipped from anonymous veils due to the legal issues that might arise from disclosing contract negotiations in a public matter. The mentioned amount by Taylor of $4'000, which according to her was the offered amount for voicing the character's lines for the game, was allegedly an offered amount for a different, one-session recording, and not the final offer for the whole game.

The 4k sum she mentioned in her original tweets was an offer made way past her departure, as a simple cameo in the game.
Meanwhile, several reports and insiders allegedly mention that the actual offer for the main game was way higher than the one she disclosed, nearing $15'000 as minimum. This 15k sum came from what Platinum originally offered her for at least five 4-hours sessions, with each one being paid from 3k to 4k, with a possible maximum amout of $20,000, if the reports are to be believed.

Hellena Taylor confirms said sums in a series of tweets on October 24th, where she specifically mentions that the initial offer she deemed too low was of 10k, which she was unhappy with, and contacted superiors. They offered her an additional 5k in return. Taylor declined and refused to voice the character. Platinum then contacted her months after for the voice cameo of one-session, this one being a 4k offer.

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One of the original tweets which brought this upfront has since been removed, but it's available under the Wayback Machine.

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It is still unknown whether or not all of this will have any legal repercussions to her due to the usual NDAs that are now the status quo within the entertainment industry.

 

[ZeroFX]

I knew it, lol, what a scummy thing to do, being a liar and demanding boycott of the game... But who the hell would boycott Bayonetta over a EN va.

 

[ov3rkill]

I would just assume Jennifer Hale accepted the same offer? Can we have a confirmation or do we have sources on how much she got paid at least a ballpark on the amount?

 

[ShadowOne333]

I would just assume Jennifer Hale accepted the same offer? Can we have a confirmation or do we have sources on how much she got paid at least a ballpark on the amount?

Even if Jennifer Hale got paid more, her experience backs it up.
Hellena has around 24 credited roles, while Jennifer has 400+ with a wide variety of games to back her up.

Still though, from what I heard, the sums offered were more or less on pair with what is common in the industry.

 

[xdarkx]

As one of the Twitter replies said that Twitter twat don't know the difference between truth and gaslight. Hellena's reply pretty much supports Jason's report. Not to mention she told everyone to boycott the game cause she didn't get the offer she wanted only to screw over all the devs that spend years developing the game. Keep in mind that she only needed to do about half a week worth of work when compare to average workers who work 8 hours a day for 5 days a week.

 

[JuanMena]

We all should buy this Bayonetta to support new voice actress.

 

[SG854]

The title should be changed to Former voice actress.... after this stunt she pulled

 

[Eddypikachu]

Can't wait to pick up my Trinity Masquerade edition this friday!

 

[HarveyHouston]

I'm thinking this is probably going to be the last Bayonetta game due to this, and I say... good riddance.

 

[jesus96]

Dunno but i hope platinum strikers back for the shitty boicot she wanted to made

She is already cancelled but come on she almost damaged years of work for nothing and she trough it was her character,what an annoying person

 

[tabzer]

No way.. There was more to the story? Who'd have thought!?

The real story was there was no story? ...or that she turned down being paid $1,000 an hour to be listened to.

Because she believes her voice is more valuable.

So she did incalculable PR damage via Twitter. Guess her voice is priceless.

 

[ZeroHunta]

She didn't care about anyone else that worked to make the game, not even the others VA's.
And now she gets what she deserves.

 

[sarkwalvein]

Twitter drama is boring.

And I don't mean life is just with nothing to complain about, but making it into twitter drama makes it look like a joke. It is not the right channel.

 

[SG854]

Twitter drama is boring.

And I don't mean life is just with nothing to complain about, but making it into twitter drama makes it look like a joke. It is not the right channel.

We need drama. We thrive on drama. Life would be boring without drama and conflict. So we create drama to make life less boring.

 

[DJPlace]

that's what you get for being a greedy bitch.

 

[Valwinz]

she is a liar and a clown will never get a VA job again

 

[SG854]

she is a liar and a clown will never get a VA job again

Cancel culture

 

[tr3vk4m]

that's what you get for being a greedy bitch.

Because I'm sure the rest of the millions will be distributed fairly amongst the artists, programmers etc.

 

[krakenx]

The real villain in this story is the NDA. People should be allowed freely to discuss their wages.

 

[Deleted member 194275]

The real villain in this story is the NDA. People should be allowed freely to discuss their wages.

And they are, but in the real life places to discuss those matters (unions for example), not on fucking Twitter.

 

[KitChan]

IDK what she hoped to achieve by all of this.

I heard she wants to stick to theater so it's probably no consequence to her.