Speaking at Sydney Film Festival, Hideo Kojima spoke about actor Luca Marinelli – who he's a big fan of, saying he chose him for Death Stranding 2 because he needed someone who "would surpass" Mads Mikkelsen in the first game. Marinelli was revealed to players in a trailer back in March, in which his garb – a gray bandana – drew immediate comparisons to Metal Gear 's long-suffering hero.
As it turns out, fans weren't the only ones to draw those comparisons – so did Marinelli himself. Kojima says that when he asked the actor how he and his friends reacted to his Death Stranding 2 character reveal, Marinelli said: "'Oh Snake is wonderful. I'm so happy to be Snake'
Kojima had to put that misconception to bed pretty quickly, telling Marinelli, "'no, you're not Snake. You just have a bandana on your head!" Unfortunately, we don't know how Marinelli reacted to that reveal, but we do know that Kojima remains a huge fan of his actor.
"I needed someone who can top Mads [Mikkelsen] and Cliff," he said. "I thought Luca could do it." That intuition was proven correct once Marinelli arrived on set – "His acting was just so, so spectacular," Kojima went on. "Léa [Seydoux] comes in or Norman [Reedus] comes in, they're usually on their phones. But then when Luca started to perform, everyone put their phones down and concentrated."
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