GTA V: Don Cheto, a celebrity from Mexico and the USA, refused payment from Rockstar Games for his participation in the game

The passage of time allows us to know some details and secrets about the development of the most successful video games. This weekend, Grand Theft Auto It became a trend after Martyn Ware, founder of the English pop band Heaven 17 revealed that Rockstar Games offered $7500 USD for the use of the theme song Temptation for GTA 6. The artist He considered the figure an insult and sparked controversyInterestingly, this coincides with a recent revelation by a celebrity from Mexico and the United States who, in a similar case, took the opposite path.

Don Cheto revealed how much Rockstar offered him for his work in GTA V

In the framework of the debate on the alleged amount that Rockstar Games offered for the use of a song by the band Heaven 17what happened more than 10 years ago with the Mexican-born actor came to light Juan Carlos Razo and his character Don Cheto who participated as a speaker in Grand Theft Auto V for the Mexican music station EAST LOS FM together with Camilo Lara. During his participation in the podcast The cool mole He recounted how the video game company approached him, the amount they offered him, and what came of it.

According to Don Cheto, prior to the launch of GTA V His manager contacted him and told him about an interesting opportunity to work on a top-secret video game project. In a face-to-face meeting, he revealed that the title in question was GTA V and that the offer was for me to record voice-over lines, work for which I would receive $6000 USD as a one-time payment.

In this regard, The actor rejected the amount offered by Rockstar Games because he considered it irrelevant. and preferred to do the work without charging because he knew the expectations there were for GTA V and what his involvement in this title could mean for his career.

Don Cheto revealed that after accepting the offer he signed many confidentiality documents and even He was forbidden to talk to his own wife about GTA V Well Rockstar didn’t want anything to leak.The recording session took a couple of days, according to his testimony, and the team in charge asked him to record already established lines, but they gave him the freedom to make puns and put his own spin on each one. The actor also mentioned that during that recording session he learned all the details of the game and immediately understood the total discretion that Rockstar had in this regard.

Subsequently, Don Cheto made public that he recorded phrases for more than 60 songsbut only 15 of them reached EAST LOS FM and he assured that there were songs from groups such as Caifanes, Cartel de Santa, Banda La Arrolladora, Gerardo Ortíz and more.

Finally, and as an anecdote, the actor assured that everything went perfectly with Rockstar Games but they did not give him a single copy of GTA V when it came out, so he had to buy his own and once he had it he was able to show his family the secret project he worked on.

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