Date: March 20th, 2019 12:35 PM
Author: Abusive Boltzmann Garrison
https://www.newsweek.com/dmc-5-devil-cry-voice-actor-dante-morrisonreuben-langdon-joey-camen-blackface-1366791
The English cast of Devil May Cry 5 is full of controversial figures. Over the past few days, both the voice of Dante, Reuben Langdon, and Morrison, Joey Camen, have come under fire on forum site ResetEra for past comments and remarks.
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(Update 11:12 p.m. EDT) After this story was posted, Camen deleted the videos that were embedded in this article. The rest of his videos are still up on his channel.
From 2015 to 2016, Camen posted to the “Camen TV” YouTube channel, where the actor would post videos openly mocking transgender people, wearing black-face and other controversial content. In one video he plays “Krey Master J” an over-exaggerated black stereotype that wears a black face mask and openly says the n-word (though it is bleeped out).
In another, Camen wears a purple wig and calls himself “Susan”, a “transgender against trans fats.” The four-minute video uses the term “transvestite” and lacks any form of nuance whatsoever. Another video has Camen dressed up as “Rabbi Goldstein” who can’t seem to understand Black Lives Matter but spits when asked if “goyim” (non-jews) matter. One more has Camen as “Tommy from Thailand” where he says “black man try to f*** with me” and “try to jew me down on stuff.” The 27 videos are full of stale humor, offensive jokes and a poor grasp on modern internet culture.
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Reuben Langdon is a voice actor with credits in Street Fighter V , Last of Us and most recently played Dante in the critically acclaimed Devil May Cry 5 . He’s been playing the devil character since 2003’s Devil May Cry 3. On March 14, Langdon was interviewed on the Toy Bounty Hunters YouTube channel, and discussed a bevy of complicated and nuanced topics ranging from Black Lives Matter to the allegations against fellow voice actor Vic Mignogna.
The interview includes Hero Hei and the Yellow Flash, two YouTubers who made videos brigading against “Twitter warriors,” Star Wars and the Vic Mignogna accusations. They brought Langdon onto a live stream, and he decided to share his feelings on the Black Lives Matter and Me Too movements. “The MeToo and BLM movement are never going to end, it’s just going to be constantly throwing people under the bus and it just creates more conflict than what we’ve already been through,” Langdon said. “We need to start telling ourselves a new story and move forward in a new way.”
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Langdon says that he is “pro Mignogna” and believes “that people are going to these extremes to try and throw him under the bus. Whether he is guilty or not, there is a collective pain in the public consciousness right now. We are not going to heal that energy by kicking Vic out.”
Later in the interview, Langdon would pivot to the Trump administration and its potential relationship with the Russian government. “The whole Russian collusion thing, how many years have we been going on with this and there’s still no evidence?” Langdon said. “We are in this era of lets’ just make up a bunch of stuff and if we get it out there in the media and enough people believe it, that’s all we need... I’m not a Trump supporter or hater, I look at the evidence.”
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He’s also a firm believer in QAnon, the conspiracy theory that believes there is a “deep state” government being run without the public’s knowledge.
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(Update: 4:26 p.m. EDT.): Capcom shared this comment with Newsweek: "The views of the VO actors are not condoned by nor do they reflect those of Capcom."
Newsweek has reached out to Camen and Langdon and will update the story when they respond.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4224949&forum_id=2#37960666)