{"id":90602,"date":"2026-10-05T12:26:40","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T16:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=90602"},"modified":"2026-10-05T12:39:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T16:39:21","slug":"how-bill-skarsgard-became-the-face-of-hideo-kojimas-physint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=90602","title":{"rendered":"How Bill Skarsgard Became The Face Of Hideo Kojima\u2019s Physint"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hideo Kojima&#8217;s spiritual successor to Metal Gear Solid, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/physint-release-date-estimate-gameplay-and-everything-we-know\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Physint<\/a>,\u00a0doesn&#8217;t just have a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/hideo-kojima-says-sony-dropping-physint-was-a-serious-blow-but-theres-no-bad-blood\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">new home at Xbox<\/a>; it also has a famous face attached to it, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/hideo-kojima-physint-casts-bill-skarsgard-as-its-lead\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bill Skarsgard<\/a> (It, Boy Kills World) playing the lead role. Thanks to Death Stranding 2: On the Beach composer Yoann &#8220;Woodkid&#8221; Lemoine, Kojima was introduced to\u00a0Skarsgard, who would later be cast as the yet-to-be-named protagonist of Physint.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;He&#8217;s been in some excellent films. Directors I know have worked with him and can&#8217;t praise him enough,&#8221; Kojima said on a new episode of the Koji 10 radio program. &#8220;I wanted to work with him for a long time. Then one day,\u00a0Bill visited Woodkid&#8217;s studio. When Bill went to his studio, he saw piles of Kojima Productions merchandise. He said, &#8216;What&#8217;s this? Why do you have all this!?&#8217; Yoann said, &#8216;I worked with them,&#8217; and that\u2019s how Yoann introduced us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kojima would later travel to Sweden to meet Skarsgard and his family. Skarsgard was a fan of the Metal Gear franchise, and Kojima pitched him the lead role in Physint, which Skarsgard accepted.<\/p>\n<p>  https:\/\/youtu.be\/YDTq8SeY9s0  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s still early days for Physint, and Kojima says that Skarsgard is eager to get his hands on the game&#8217;s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hideo Kojima&#8217;s spiritual successor to Metal Gear Solid, Physint,\u00a0doesn&#8217;t just have a new home at Xbox; it also has a famous face attached to it, with Bill Skarsgard (It, Boy Kills World) playing the lead role. Thanks to Death Stranding 2: On the Beach composer Yoann &#8220;Woodkid&#8221; Lemoine, Kojima was introduced to\u00a0Skarsgard, who would later&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":90604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90602"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90602"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90605,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90602\/revisions\/90605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/90604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}