{"id":298550,"date":"2024-04-21T02:47:24","date_gmt":"2024-04-21T07:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/sonic-voice-actor-jason-griffith-reacts-to-keanu-reeves-casting"},"modified":"2024-04-21T02:47:42","modified_gmt":"2024-04-21T07:47:42","slug":"sonic-voice-actor-jason-griffith-reacts-to-keanu-reeves-casting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/sonic-voice-actor-jason-griffith-reacts-to-keanu-reeves-casting","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Sonic&#039; Voice Actor Jason Griffith Reacts to Keanu Reeves&#039; Casting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"cb-2db9778350b1e1aff1b2d95b90bac1ac\">\n<p>Voice actor <strong>Jason Griffith<\/strong> isn\u2019t losing sleep over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/keanu-reeves\/\"><strong>Keanu Reeves<\/strong><\/a> stepping in to play the character he voiced in the \u201cSonic the Hedgehog\u201d video games and TV series.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"cb-aa5b34863e7f437fab0dcd860b4d9f21\">\n<p>Jason tells TMZ \u2026 he thinks Keanu is the perfect choice to play antihero Shadow the Hedgehog in the 3rd \u2018Sonic\u2019 film. As Jason puts it, he was never asked to voice the role for the upcoming film, so he doesn\u2019t feel like Keanu \u201cstole\u201d his part.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"cb-4d634fdb40aa774440689517486b3db5\">\n<p>He adds \u2026 \u201cOne of the many rewards of being in this business is being asked to voice a character that\u2019s so beloved and means so much to so many people. And then, to share that character with someone like Keanu \u2026 I mean, it\u2019s such an honor.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"cb-146718e76a2a77d4d8ce58944bf76bcb\">\n<p>In fact, he says Keanu was his personal casting choice when rumors first began swirling on who was going to voice Shadow in the film franchise.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><!-- \/adman_adcode (middle) --><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-a4c1daa9658a6fd288d37efe4a6fd381\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-image-block canvas-image-block-permalink canvas-image-block--default \">\n<div class=\"image-block\">\n     <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20240417_eecde83604d74a3d943b17f84b43e2af\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:f9427279-799b-4959-900d-73c4992421a5\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"img-wrapper\">\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" title=\"actor\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/etrafficlane.com\/newline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/1713685042_373_039Sonic039-Voice-Actor-Jason-Griffith-Reacts-to-Keanu-Reeves039-Casting.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Shadow the hedgehog\"\/>\n    <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/a>\n  <\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"cb-06c8c10978e627c914b199c8a6987004\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink canvas-text-block--default \" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;text_block&quot;}\" readability=\"33\">\n<p>He says, \u201cI think even his natural speaking voice lends itself to Shadow so well. It\u2019s a great choice.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"cb-69220b0deecf509ca21aa5d60f9234bc\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink canvas-text-block--default \" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;text_block&quot;}\" readability=\"37\">\n<p>Of course, this isn\u2019t the first time Jason has been overlooked during casting for the \u2018Sonic\u2019 films. Remember, Jason \u2014 who voiced both Sonic and Shadow for the games for almost a decade \u2014 wasn\u2019t tapped to play the star hedgehog \u2026 that role went to comedian <strong>Ben Schwartz<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"cb-a4da82409cfd96daf106829d14891679\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-youtube-video-block canvas-youtube-video-block-permalink canvas-youtube-video-block--default \">\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"cb-1676bf8a78953b0a85595ce32c3d5da9\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink canvas-text-block--default \" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;text_block&quot;}\" readability=\"35\">\n<p>Still, Jason makes it clear he isn\u2019t bitter about not appearing in the flicks \u2026 saying he understands producers want to keep things fresh and it has introduced so many new people to the \u2018Sonic\u2019 franchise.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"cb-3f294bebffceaebdbe216c465537d658\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink canvas-text-block--default canvas-block-is-last \" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;text_block&quot;}\" readability=\"33\">\n<p>However, check out our clip, he does have one piece of advice for Keanu.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/etrafficlane.com\/newline\/sonic-voice-actor-jason-griffith-reacts-to-keanu-reeves-casting\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voice actor Jason Griffith isn\u2019t losing sleep over Keanu Reeves stepping in to play the character he voiced in the \u201cSonic the Hedgehog\u201d video games [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}