Leon Kennedy's Voice Actor Says Capcom Cut His 'Favorite' Line From Resident Evil Requiem

Nick Apostolides, champion known arsenic the dependable down beloved Resident Evil protagonist Leon S. Kennedy, revealed a hilarious dependable enactment helium pitched for RE9 that got chopped from last game.

Apostolides’ show arsenic Leon Kennedy successful Resident Evil Requiem saw him thin into the character’s badass, '80s-action-flick persona that archetypal blossomed successful RE4, giving him a slew of lovably corny one-liners that helium spouts disconnected passim the people of the game.

One of these quips was suggested by Apostolides’ during Leon’s combat with the Titan Spinner successful Raccoon City — but unfortunately, it didn’t extremity up making the cut. And that’s a existent bummer, due to the fact that it’s priceless.

He revealed this accusation during a podcast occurrence with chap dependable actors Ben Starr and Alanah Pearce, wherever helium said it would person been his “favorite” enactment successful the game, had it been utilized successful the last product.

“When you combat the spider, I wanted to accidental — and we recorded it — ‘You know, you’ve been a existent itsy-bitsy symptom successful my ass,'” helium said, delivering the enactment successful Leon’s gruff, grizzled voice. “It would person been a banger.”

Pearce and Starr were successful implicit agreement, arsenic were commenters crossed the net, with 1 penning connected X, “This would person been freaking incredible.”

Instead, it seems Capcom went with a somewhat antithetic approach, with Leon saying, “You are a existent pest, you cognize that?” and, “I don’t person clip for pest control,” during the battle.

With Requiem successful the books, fans are present looking guardant to the Code Veronica remake, which is slated to merchandise immoderate clip successful 2027. Until then, there’s Zach Cregger’s movie adaptation of the bid coming to theaters this October, which has already been met with cautious excitement from longtime fans of the franchise.

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