![]() ![]() And this is one of the closest things I’ve ever seen to a graphic book coming to life. I have nothing to compare it to in the gaming world, but I am in the movie world, and the graphic novel world. You wanted to just sit there forever and see what’s behind that next mountain. I was just flabbergasted for those two hours I played. It’s much more than I anticipated, to be honest with you. But having the characters come to life, and my colleagues’ acting, some people that I know that are not actors, but are strong characters I know. The inspiration from the storyboard is absolutely there. Having gambled on a project without a script-is the final version of Death Stranding what you expected when you originally signed on? And that’s how I approached it from the very beginning. He’s fighting for his life, or his child’s life. There are different reasons for the way is acting out the way he is. , we just approached it as a man in a certain situation. That’s important, that you justify him somehow, or at least humanize him to the degree that you can recognize what his motives are. I always try to make my villains heroes, to try to see the world from his perspective. On a performance level, is there a difference between playing the antagonist in a blockbuster movie and playing the villain in a blockbuster video game?įirst of all, I’m not the villain in this game. You’ve been a James Bond villain, and you’ve been a Marvel villain, and now you’re in Death Stranding. You keep a whole situation in your mind, and it’s your job to bring life to it. This was new to me, to act out entire scenes in mo-cap-sometimes with fellow actors, and sometimes all by yourself. It was like had different pieces of the puzzle. It was almost an impossible task to explain the entire game. There’s no way to pitch that just by talking to someone for a couple of hours. And was so enormous: 52 to 55 hours of material. And some pictures-that enormous storyboard I told you about, which was almost like a graphic novel. The difference here was that I did not have the script. ![]() You know the character, and the journey is character is on. Normally, I would read the entire script, and be inspired by it, and have questions, or be intrigued-whatever it is that makes you say yes. Once, very early in my career, I said yes to a project without reading a script. Did you find that playing Cliff pushed you into any kind of new territory as an actor? Your voice and likeness also appeared in the Quantum of Solace video game, but I assume the process of acting for a video game has changed dramatically over the past decade. ![]() What’s it like to star in a video game via technology this cutting-edge, and with a story this complicated, in 2019? Mads Mikkelsen took us inside Death Stranding (We were binge-watching Hannibal at the time, and our nippy puppy-like Hannibal Lecter-had a taste for human flesh.) "I love that story! More stories like that," the 53-year-old actor says with a laugh.Īs much as I’d love to swap dog stories with Mikkelsen all day, we’re here to connect over a different project: Death Stranding, the mysterious and highly-anticipated new PlayStation 4 title from video game auteur Hideo Kojima.ĭeath Stranding features an accomplished cast of actors, but Mads Mikkelsen’s Cliff Unger ends up stealing the show-first appearing in a series of enigmatic flashbacks seen from the perspective of a baby in a tank, and later emerging as the richest and most complicated character in a plot I wouldn’t dream of spoiling. At what point in an interview do you confess to the subject that you named your dog after them? For me? Right at the end, which is when I tell Mads Mikkelsen that my wife and I named our puppy in his honor. ![]()
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