Recently, Kojima Studios released a new trailer for Death Stranding 2 and announced that the game will be coming to PS5 on June 26th, with the new character Neil in the trailer getting a lot of attention due to his cool resemblance to Solid Snake from the Alloy Gear series, and Hideo Kojima introduced the behind-the-scenes story of the casting of Neil’s actor, Luca Marinelli, in a new tweet today.
Hideo Kojima said he first met Luca Marinelli through the Italian movie They Call Me Geek, in which Luca Marinelli played a villainous character. In 2020, Luca Marinelli starred in another movie, Martin Eden, which was released in Japan. The producers invited Hideo Kojima to promote the movie, and Luca Marinelli took this opportunity to meet Hideo Kojima and expressed that he is a big fan of Hideo Kojima.
Luca Marinelli said in an email to Hideo Kojima, “Alloy has been with me since I was a kid, I’m a big fan of yours and I’m honored that you’ve seen a movie I’m starring in and I want to tell you how I feel about it.
Luca Marinelli
Then during the outbreak, Hideo Kojima began casting for Death Stranding 2, with a new character, Neil, being particularly important, as Hideo Kojima said the character was replacing Cliff Ungar in the sequel, and that fans wouldn’t be satisfied unless the casting surpassed that of Max Mikkelsen.
Hideo Kojima thought that Luca Marinelli was the only one for the new role of Neil and offered him the role, while Luca Marinelli was filming his new movie Eight Hills. After a phone call with Hideo Kojima, Luca Marinelli agreed to play the role, marking Luca Marinelli’s first video game role.
It’s worth noting that the Lucy actor playing opposite Neil in the trailer is actually Luca Marinelli’s real-life wife, Alissa, who is also an actress and filmmaker. When Hideo Kojima was looking for an actor to play Lucy, Luca Marinelli recommended his wife. Hideo Kojima praised the couple’s performance, especially at the height of the epidemic, and they agreed to act without a script.
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