Steven Ogg famously portrayed the wildcard character Trevor in Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto 5, and he wishes Rockstar brought the character back for GTA 6.
Speaking to Principle Magazine, Ogg said it would have been a nice moment to “pass the torch” to have Trevor show up at the beginning of GTA 6 “sitting on the toilet” or doing some “weird thing” like walking around having something fall on his head, knocking him to the ground.
In short, Ogg said he wanted Trevor to have some kind of “acknowledgement” that Trevor’s story is over and it’s time for Jason and Lucia to take center stage in GTA 6. Ogg said it could have been a nice full circle moment because, in GTA 5, Trevor’s first scene shows him bashing Johnny Klebitz from GTA 4.
“I’m not a fan of all of the reboots and the sequels. I don’t get the … the hunger for that, but there is, because it makes money and that’s why people do it,” he said.
Ogg went on to say things have come so far since GTA 5, so he wanted to see how characters from GTA 5 could look in GTA 6, given the technical improvements from the past decade.
“So, I’d be curious. But you know, not my duck, not my bottle. Not my monkey, not my cage,” he said.
Also in the interview, Ogg pushed back against the online theories that he is no fan of GTA and Trevor. He said he’s always been proud of Trevor and proud of what Rockstar created. He doesn’t play GTA 5, but he said people are out of line for taking his soundbites about GTA 5 and spinning them into a belief that he’s no fan of GTA or his character. He acknowledged he didn’t like how people would call him Trevor, and not Steven, in real life, though.
“That’s been all blown out of proportion. Or that I hate GTA and now I’m starting to embrace it more. No, it’s just early on, there was a lot of people calling me Trevor. And I’d be like, ‘Well, my name is Steven,'” he said. “So I could never understand that. So it’s always like ‘What’s your name, David? Okay, Nolan.’ It doesn’t make sense if you know someone’s name and you’re calling them someone else’s name. I don’t get it. And I understand people associate with characters and connections,” he said. “At these Comic Cons, they’re not Documentary Cons. So I couldn’t be these people. I mean, I couldn’t even be Trevor, because he’s a cartoon. Simon [from The Walking Dead] was a human on a TV show, at least. Yeah, it’s just one of those things. It’s like… [scratches head]. It’s like me calling you, you know, Barbara.”
Trevor was one of the three playable characters in GTA 5, alongside Michael (Ned Luke) and Franklin (Shawn Fonteno). Ogg, in particular, landed some notable acting roles after GTA 5, appearing in the TV shows Better Call Saul, Snowpiercer, and Westworld, along with the films Emancipation and Unabomber.
Trevor was apparently going to be in more content for GTA 5, as Ogg said Rockstar canceled Trevor-centric DLC that would have featured a James Bond-like story. Rockstar reportedly canceled the DLC so it could instead focus more on GTA Online, which is known to basically print money.
GTA 5 launches on November 19 for PS5 and Xbox Series X|S.
