{"id":92697,"date":"2026-11-06T10:01:47","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T15:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=92697"},"modified":"2026-11-06T10:38:46","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T15:38:46","slug":"bill-skarsgard-didnt-need-much-convincing-to-join-hideo-kojimas-physint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=92697","title":{"rendered":"Bill Skarsgard Didn\u2019t Need Much Convincing To Join Hideo Kojima\u2019s Physint"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hideo Kojima&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/physint-release-date-estimate-gameplay-and-everything-we-know\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Physint<\/a> has a leading man in Bill Skarsg\u00e5rd, and the Hollywood actor recently spoke more about his part in the game. Billed as a spiritual successor to Kojima&#8217;s Metal Gear Solid franchise, Physint is an action-espionage game that features Skarsg\u00e5rd alongside several other actors, like Charlee Fraser, Don Lee, and Minami Hamabe. Skarsg\u00e5rd&#8217;s love for the Metal Gear Solid franchise and a chance to work with Kojima proved\u00a0to be the\u00a0deciding factors in taking on the role of the unnamed Physint protagonist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I played every single one,&#8221; Skarsg\u00e5rd said to Josh Horowitz on the <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/7dyrwLAH6Mg?t=2819\">Happy Sad Confused podcast<\/a>. &#8220;Starting from the one on PlayStation One all the way to the last one. I was very enamored by him\u00a0[Kojima], the mythology and the universes that\u00a0he creates, but also the\u00a0mystique and the allure about him, as well. He is an auteur, but he&#8217;s a video game auteur. He&#8217;s fluent in filmmaking, and film, and cinema.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  https:\/\/youtu.be\/7dyrwLAH6Mg?t=2819  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Skarsg\u00e5rd believes that Kojima&#8217;s cinematic video games are a new medium that he&#8217;s pioneering, and with Physint, the developer is getting closer to\u00a0&#8220;something that&#8217;s photorealistic and also\u00a0interactive,&#8221; the actor said. &#8220;I think he&#8217;s a pioneer, and he keeps going out to untreaded waters.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hideo Kojima&#8217;s Physint has a leading man in Bill Skarsg\u00e5rd, and the Hollywood actor recently spoke more about his part in the game. Billed as a spiritual successor to Kojima&#8217;s Metal Gear Solid franchise, Physint is an action-espionage game that features Skarsg\u00e5rd alongside several other actors, like Charlee Fraser, Don Lee, and Minami Hamabe. Skarsg\u00e5rd&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":92699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92697","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\/92697"}],"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=92697"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92700,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92697\/revisions\/92700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/92699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}