Voice actor Michael Hollick wasﷺ paid $100,000 for his fifteen-month stint as 📖Niko Bellic in Grand Theft Auto IV.

Hollick, who was practically a nobody before the game's bloc🦩kbuster success, has mixed opinions on whether or not he was given 𝐆a reasonable amount for his role in the biggest entertainment product of all time.

"Obviously I'm incredibly thankful to Rockstar for the oppo🍨rtunity to be in this game when I was just a nobody, an unknown quantity," he said to the.

"But it's tough, when you se🍌e Grand Theft Auto IV out there as the biggest thing going right now, when they're making hundreds of millions of dollars, and we don't see 🤡any of it.

"I don't blame Rockstar," he was quick to add. "I blame our union for not having 🎃the agreements in place to protect the creative people who drive the sales of these games. Yes, the technology is important, but it's the human performances wit🦩hin them that people really connect to, and I hope actors will get more respect for the work they do within those technologies."

In most other mediums, Hollick would have been paid royalties for his voice appearing in the product. He said thatღ he "asked about residuals when we negotiated, but I was told tha💙t was not a possibility."

The issue is further clouded by the inclusion of his voice in other media outlets advertising the game, including television, film, radio and♐ the internet.

Unsurprisiཧngly, other voice actors in the game earned significantly less than Hollick. Ryan Johnston, who played Patrick McReary, said that he was paid $1,050 a day.

And if just now you're thinking "Jeez, I wish I made $1,000 a day," let us remind you that mostvoice actors (you know, people who aren't Cam Clarke or 🎉Jim Cummings) are lucky to work an average of 14 payabledays a yꩲear.

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May 21, 2008