Trevor's voice actor says he won't be in GTA 6, though would've liked a cameo where he got 'killed at the beginning'

The biggest game of 2025, if it doesn't get delayed, is undoubtedly going to be Grand Theft Auto 6: We've had a trailer but little else from Rockstar, even though Take-Two's CEO says the game's on-track for "fall" (though who knows when we'll see the PC version). And gamers abhor a vacuum, so GTA fans are essentially posting through it. The latest theory involved the moon, the identification order for Bonnie and Clyde, and a license plate: I'm not kidding.

Among the many fan theories about the game are hopes that we may see some of the old gang from GTA 5. GTA doesn't really do recurring characters, but it has had cameos as well as plenty of nods to previous protagonists. GTA 5 voice actor Steven Ogg, who plays the deeply sociopathic Trevor, has now rather definitively put paid to that idea, even if he does have a notion of how he would've liked it to be handled.

"I wish [I was in GTA 6]" said Ogg in an interview with ScreenRant. "It would be fun if Trevor appeared in it just to be killed at the beginning." This is an echo of Trevor's own beginnings, which can be fairly called one of the most divisive in series history: Near the start of GTA 5 Trevor is confronted by Johnny Kleibitz, the protagonist of GTA 4: The Lost and the Damned, and promptly beats him to death. Funnily enough Rockstar returned to this story beat for an Easter egg in 2023, bringing Johnny's ghost back for a final farewell.

"Trevor was gonna be undercover," says Ogg. "He works for the feds. And we did shoot some of that stuff with like James Bond Trevor: he’s still kind of a fuck up, but he’s doing his best to pretend to be like [an agent]. We shot some stuff and then it just disappeared and [Rockstar] never did it, and they never followed up on it."

Rich is a games journalist with 15 years' experience, beginning his career on Edge magazine before working for a wide range of outlets, including Ars Technica, Eurogamer, GamesRadar+, Gamespot, the Guardian, IGN, the New Statesman, Polygon, and Vice. He was the editor of Kotaku UK, the UK arm of Kotaku, for three years before joining PC Gamer. He is the author of a Brief History of Video Games, a full history of the medium, which the Midwest Book Review described as "[a] must-read for serious minded game historians and curious video game connoisseurs alike."