Physint star Bill Skarsgård was "very enamored" by Hideo Kojima growing up, and at this point he's far from the only Hollywood actor to feel that way.

In an appearance on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, host Josh Horowitz asks Skarsgård about his recently announced collab with Kojima, after he was announced as the lead of his upcoming Metal Gear Solid spiritual successor Physint back in September.

Skarsgård says "that's a big deal for me," and when asked if he's a gamer, he notes, "specifically the Metal Gear Solid games," adding that he "played every single" game from the PS1 title to "the last one" (presumably Metal Gear Solid 5, I can't imagine he means Survive).

He adds, "I was very enamored by him and the sort of mythology in the universes that he creates," adding, "I was really into it growing up."

Skarsgård calls Kojima an "auteur," saying "he's fluent in film making" while recalling word "way back 20 years ago" that there was talk of a Metal Gear Solid movie and the question of whether Kojima himself will direct it. Skarsgård remembers thinking, "I can't wait to see him transition it to film," but notes that "now it's gotten to the point where I asked him 'would you ever do a film?' and he's like 'no.'"

"At this point what he's doing is he's inventing a new medium," Skarsgård adds. "What we're going to do is going to be eight hours worth of narrative, right?

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