Talk:Billy Lush/@comment-31013880-20170201212409/@comment-46381644-20200718110005

As a trans person I would find the claim of his reddit username to be the "official" reason for him not reprising his role dubious at best. Since when has a gaming company (or any company) given a single heck about trans people.? Aside from that, there wasn't any outcry from within the trans gaming community about pressuring Arkane to not allow him to reprise his role. My money is on it being more of a personal matter than a company one, whether it's related to his transphobic reddit username or not. His reddit username being speculated as the reason for him not working on dh2 feels like an explanation tacked on after the fact, if that makes any sense. Around the time that the game was in development I recall him being upset about not reprising his role-- but at that time Arkane said he wasn't available and he said that they never even asked or approached him about it. I'm inclinced to believe an individual's statements of events over a company's statements of events just in general. As a person involved in the performing arts, "we asked but they were't available" is among the top 5 excuses given when casting ppl decided not to bother reaching out (for whatever reason, commonly if an actor was difficult to work with previously, like was a real jerk or something, or someone higher up on the rankings just didn't like them for a reason unrelated to their performance).

I know this thread is a few years old but I'm still really disappointed he didn't get to voice the Outsider in the subsequent games-- he was a better Outsider. No contest.