Now here we are 4 days later and we find out is was actually $15 to $20k for at max of 20 hours work. AKA $1k an hour.

jason schreiers update is interesting and makes a lot of sense. as union minimum rates are based around $/hour of recording, the offer of 4k from the very beginning assumed only a small amount of material recorded, which Jason Schreirer confirms was a cameo offered as condolence after re-casting her when negotiations…

Awwww now that she’s been outed as a liar she wants to “put the whole thing behind her”.

That’s the way I understood it too. I applied for the Beta version, and had not requested the refund for the payments made during the pause. I just reached out to my servicer to see if they could be refunded before being forgiven.

See, that’s why this additional info is important, because $4K for 16 hours of VA work seems roughly in line with SAG-AFTRA’s union rates?

https://voiceoverresourceguide.com/sag-aftra-session-fees-us-rates/

And we don’t know whether she was going to be putting in the same work on this one. She gave very little…

I might be weird but by my math, if I could make 4,000 a week I’d consider that way above “can’t afford to run a car”. Sounds like the problem is volume and consistency of projects. A few roles a month would put that in the relam of 60 hours of work per month and around 100k/yr. Doesn’t sound like chump change to me.…

Bayonetta was 16 hours, 4 days of 4 hour sessions. Sounds par for the course - rarely is this stuff more than a week of work for a single character. Only the biggest, dialogue laden games exceed that - your Assassin Creeds and Mass Effects, etc.

Really important typos here that need to be fixed ASAP:

“She has no right to sign merchandise as Bayonetta, any more than I have the right to sign as Eva Green even though I was her parent on video game The Golden Compass. That betrayal is hers, and hers alone.”

Taylor had previously mentioned that her Bayonetta 1 & 2 sessions took around 2 weeks total which adds some additional context (I have no idea what constitutes an acceptable rate for VAs). I’d be interested to know what she got for those just as some kind of baseline for comparison. If there is some shady business…

For Bayonetta, at least, we know the hours - 16.

It does seem ridiculous...

From what I understand (see timestamp) she worked a total of 4 (16?) hours for a Bayonetta, so if were 4000/16=250 $/hour?

Something doesn’t add up. Jennifer Hale would be more expensive, correct? And it’s not like they hired her as a response to Taylor’s complaints, so... what’s the full story? 

We know the price for the work, but what is the work ? How much lines is there in your average Bayonetta game ? Also a side question : in how many different languages is a game like Bayonetta dubbed ?

How much work are we talking for that 4k? Like is that for one 40 hour week or two or ten.     

I think English VAs overall are paid far too little and should be paid and treated with more dignity and respect.

In this case, I’d like to know what she thought was fair for the job, what their first offer was, if she made any counteroffers, how many hours of work it was going to be, what she was paid for the previous…

So can we get someone from Kotaku to find out what the average contract for a game is for a “minor actress” to voice a main character in a video game?

I don't have any idea what VA pay is, but why does everyone here think it takes months for the VA actor to do the role for a video game? For an animated movie, 1 hour of movie time is something like 5 hours in the studio for the actor. So a Pixar film is like 10-12 hours in studio for a VA actor. That's basically 2…

I don’t know the whole truth - and we may never know the full truth - but roles get recast for a variety of reasons. Rights disputes, payment issues, unavailability, personal issues. David Hayter wasn’t replaced in MGS5 because he was too expensive, for instance, and I struggle to think that Jennifer Hale - whom…

While I support and generally agree with what Taylor is saying, I disagree when she says that Hale has no right to say she is the voice of Bayonetta or to sign merch. Hale is now canonically the voice of Bayonetta whether Taylor likes it or not. By declining the role, for whatever reason, she has relinquished a form…