Batman Beyond Voice Actor Will Friedle explains why he won’t come back like Terry McGinnis – “I don’t know if I could do it again”

Fans who hope to see Will Friedle return as a voice by Terry McGinnis in a Batman beyond The project may want to mitigate their expectations. In a recent animated panel! Columbus 2025, Friedle clarified that revisiting the role without the end Kevin Conroy At his side he does not feel good.

“If I asked me that question three years ago, the answer would be:” Oh my God, yes. Bring me in front of the microphone right now. ”

“Now that Kevin is gone, I don’t know if I could do it again. I think they would need to refund both roles. Being Terry and not having answered it as Bruce, I don’t think I could do it.”

Friedle’s comments echo to a similar feeling shared by Mark Hamillwho officially retired from the elegant Joker in 2023. When he was asked of the Fan Expo San Francisco if he would ever return to the role, Hamill replied notoriously: “Without Batman, the crime has not jokes.”

Both actors last entered their iconic roles for the Crisis on infinite lands Animated trilogy. Since then, the absence of Conroy, who disappeared in 2022 from intestinal cancer at the age of 66, has left an evident void in the animated bat.

Conroy played Bruce Wayne for over 30 years through animation, games and even live action in the CW crisis crossover. His latest gift for fans, the autobiographical comic that finds Batman, can be read for free on the DC website.

Friedle, better known in the 90s as Eric Matthews The boy meets the worldsculpted a second career as a vice prolific actor with roles in Kim possible, Transformers: robot in disguise, Guardians of the galaxyAnd of course, Batman beyond.

The series, created by Bruce Timm, Paul DiniAND Alan BurnettHe ran from 1999 to 2001 and introduced the audience to a new type of Batman … Terry McGinnis, a rebellious teenager led by a much older Bruce Wayne in a 2039 cyberpunk Gotham.