Back in April, Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford claimed that actor Troy Baker had chosen to not reprise the function of Rhys in Borderlands 3. The actor beforehand performed the character in Telltale’s Tales from the Borderlands.
Here’s what Pitchford said to a fan when requested about Baker returning:
“You’ll have to ask Troy. I was told by the audio director that he turned it down. Fortunately, with how Rhys appears in the game, I don’t think it actually matters at all. You’ll see for yourself when the game comes out and you may disagree with me on that or not.”
Previously, throughout a panel at Supanova Melbourne, Baker had voiced his perspective over a attainable recasting, saying, “I really want Gearbox to know – if they are going to bring back characters from Telltale’s Borderlands, it should be the people who originated the characters. They shouldn’t just recast willy-nilly, because as a fan that matters to me.”
This received followers questioning what was happening, since Pitchford’s tweet made it sound like Baker had refused the function. Then there was this assertion from Baker in an interview with OnlySP.
“I said I would love to come back,” he mentioned. “[Gearbox Software] said I’m not coming back. Their timeline tells an interesting story. I think it’s interesting that Randy Pitchford tweeted out that I turned it down, and then he said he heard that I turned it down. I would fact check before I tweeted out to the internet.”
We lately received an opportunity to speak to Baker throughout a fan occasion for Retro Replay, a Let’s Play collection the actor hosts alongside the opposite Troy Baker, Nolan North. During our chat, he was brazenly dissatisfied that he didn’t get an opportunity to play Rhys once more in Borderlands 3.
“So they came to me, and they were like, ‘Do you want to do this?’,” Baker defined. “Which I said, ‘Absolutely.’ And then they made it impossible for me to do the role. It had nothing to do with money, it had nothing to do with money. They just simply would not go about doing it the way that we needed it to be done. So then it was like, I never said no.”
We requested Baker to make clear what he meant by this, be it scheduling conflicts or one thing else.
“No, it was simply a matter of they wouldn’t go union,” he replied. “And I can’t do a non-union gig. And without getting too deep into the weeds of that, we had long conversations about this. We always knew going into it, that this was going to be the thing. They were going to take these characters, and put them from the Tales from the Borderlands series from Telltale, into Borderlands proper. I’ve been waiting for this call. They were like, ‘Do you want to do this?’ And I said, ‘Yes’. They never, because they would never move from that position. I’m not mad. It’s invariably a completely different character, but it still stings.”
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