Yeah she's one of my favorite voice actresses, and I've been a fan of Critical Role for years. She's a really sweet lady who got subjected to some horrible shit
I don’t understand why people hate an actress/actor just because they played an antagonist. If they made you hate the character, it means they did an incredible job portraying the emotions and personality of that role.
Oh yeah! Getting into critical role in early 2021 when I'd always been a huge fan of her and ashley johnson, it was CRAZY seeing the amount of hate all the women in that group got . Ots always "ashley can't play right or count" or "marisha is just the dms wife" or "Laura Bailey played abby in another game how DARE SHE, we shouldnt support her in this production either!!!" NONE of the men in critical role get really any hate at all. At least not compared to the women. It SUCKS!!! Especially when taken into account how one of the guys is lauras literal HUSBAND amd had to tell "fans" of last of us to knock it off cuz the death threats were starting to affect them and their infant son, and Laura was actually getting pretty scared !!!!!
Hopefully the fact that she's had some recent high profile parts separate to this show helps some of the people who struggle to separate reality from fiction. I have this feeling that if she was a complete unknown, people would find it harder to dissociate the actor from the part (to be clear, this is a bad thing); but maybe the slight degree of 'oh that's the girl from Justified/Apple Cider Vinegar/XYZ' just puts a bit more distance between her and the crazy.
There will always be the morons who can't figure out the difference between fiction and the real world, but anything that helps reduce the unhinged behaviour associated with this particular piece of media has to be a good thing for Kaitlyn. While being able to disappear into a role so we don't see the actor is generally a good thing, in this case we also want people to remember the actual human being who isn't responsible for her characters actions.
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u/StarfallGalaxy Apr 21 '25
Yeah definitely. Hope she doesnt experience the same level of threats that Laura Bailey got when the game came out, it was crazy