At the end of January Sonic the HedgehogVoice actor Roger Craig Smith announced his departure from the role.
At the time, something was suspected to be going on behind the scenes at Sega prior to Sonic’s 30th anniversary celebrations, but according to the voice actor, it was his own decision.
He recently shared this information in an interview with Voices from Krypton (transcript courtesy of The Sonic Stadium):
“I think my answer would be” is just one of those things. ” It is a time to see the way things are run and the way you are, where you are and what you want to deal with and do. And I found myself saying, ‘I think it’s time. I think it’s time to finish. ‘
“I know people are a bit surprised and shocked by that, and it was like ‘yeah’, and I’ve seen all the speculation that they said, ‘voice actors don’t walk away, he was fired!
The perception that people have is interesting, and we get it all the time; like, it’s amazing how all the experts out there that have nothing to do with this industry making all these assumptions, you know, ‘this is how this works and this is what it does’ …
You know, after a while you do things and you start to say, ‘I think I’m very happy and I’m very proud and I’m very happy with what has happened there,’ and I think it’s time to say, ‘No, I don’t want to keep doing this.
Some people would say, “why?” and it’s like, “it doesn’t have to make sense to you.” It’s perfectly sensible to me and it was the right thing to do, and I’m happy I did it. ‘
Smith’s exit from the role was followed by the voice actor for Tails, who noted that she would not be lending her voice to the character in the upcoming Netflix animation, Amy Rose’s voice actor also revealed that it was over and Mike Pollock confirmed that would continue to voice Dr. Eggman in the future. Sonic’s games.
You can see Roger’s goodbye message (and Sega’s goodbye message) in our previous story.
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