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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