Five Nights at Freddy’s wears its Chuck E. Cheese inspiration on its sleeve, however there are extra Millennial childhood influences on the megahit Gen Z sport than that pizza-loving rat and his cowl band. In response to two voice actors who star in the sport’s ninth core-series entry, Five Nights at Freddy’s: Security Breach, two icons of the decade were of their minds whereas they were in the recording sales space.
Talking at MCM Comedian Con in Might of 2025, Gregory and Roxanne voice actor Marta Svetek recalled that hr younger boy character voice spawned from the cleverest lad of the decade in query: Kevin McCallister.
“Gregory was very a lot impressed by kind of the 90’s household film,” recounts the actor, “Form of Macaulay Culkin, Dwelling Alone. Just a little bit extra excitable […] it was my first baby voice to do, and I used to be actually nervous. I nearly did not audition for it.”
In the meantime, co-star Kellen Goff, who performs a punked-out, good man model of sequence villain Freddy Fazbear – identified by followers as Glamrock Freddy – stated he was holding a special sort of hero in thoughts.
“Scott [Cawthon, creator] requested me straight for that one,” he stated, “He stated, ‘Optimus Prime.’ That is what he wished. Optimus Prime if he was extra cuddly and spherical. And so [does the voice], this got here up. I believe I did a number of totally different takes of it, however he favored that one.”
Now we’re curious to know what different icons of the age are factoring into these voice actors’ performances. subsequent factor , somebody’s going to say that William Afton has one thing to do with that different killer from Scream.
You possibly can watch the entirety of the Five Nights at Freddy’s: Security Breach panel, that includes Kellen Goff, Marta Svetek, and Dawko, from MCM London Might 2023 proper right here: