Laura Bailey Talks Sexualized Female Characters And Making Progress
The voice actor talks about her award-winning role as Abby and how roles for women have improved.
Laura Bailey s role as Abby in The Last Of Us 2 was a pivotal one for the voice actor, netting her the Best Performance award in the 2020 Game Awards. In a new interview on the Good Game Nice Try podcast, she s talked about how rare fully realized roles for women were when she first started voice acting for video games, and how the industry has improved since then.
During the interview, Bailey calls back to a conversation she had with fellow voice actor Troy Baker around a decade ago, when the two were neighbors. She was telling him how frustrating it was in this industry at the time to be a female and to only have roles come up so rarely that were fully fledged people, she explained. It was hard for him to understand because, for him, it had always just been a given that that s the type of roles that he would ge