Bleach Anime English Voice Actor Explains Decision to Leave His Role

There is a new English voice actor for Yasutora “Chad” Sado in the Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War anime adaptation. Alain Mesa will now play the role instead of Jamieson Price. To help explain what’s going on and his decision to step away from the role, Price took to Twitter. In short, he said, “…I no longer audition for roles of people of color.”

Here’s Price’s full series of tweets explaining his decision to no longer serve as the English voice actor for Chad in the Bleach anime. He noted that he loved the role, but decided to remove himself from the role to allow more access and better representation.

I have had access to a very wide variety of roles in my career. Actors use their imaginations and their experience to breathe life into the characters we portray. We get to walk in someone else's skin for a time. We practice empathy. We feel. And we learn.

— Jamieson Price (@JamiesonPrice) November 3, 2022

Thank you for all the love and support you have shown me over the years. Please welcome Alain Mesa to the role of Chad.
He's got some big shoes to fill!
Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better – Maya Angelou#BLEACH_anime #BLEACHTYBW #Chad

— Jamieson Price (@JamiesonPrice) November 3, 2022

In addition to the role of Chad in Bleach, Mesa appeared as Salazar in Great Pretender, Victor Garcia Hernandez in Forza Horizon 5, and Alejandro Vargas in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II.

Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War is available to stream via Disney+ and Hulu.