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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Bill Skarsgård’s Next Role Is in a Video Game · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: Bill Skarsgård has gotten to the point in his acting
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  Speaker 2: career where he can more or less have his own
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  Speaker 2: picks of projects, be it in movies, TV, or on stage,
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  Speaker 2: but he's going in a very different direction with his
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  Speaker 2: next role. It's a video game.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's been confirmed Bill will star in the upcoming
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  Speaker 3: action espionage game, Visit, and he's usually attracted to projects
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  Speaker 3: that are a bit left of center, maybe even a
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  Speaker 3: little strange, and this game will be no different.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's being created by a guy who's kind of
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  Speaker 1: like the Christopher Nolan or Tarantino of gaming. He's a
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  Speaker 1: true visionary with a unique voice named Hideo Kojima.
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  Speaker 2: Kojima created the wildly popular Metal Gear game franchise and
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  Speaker 2: a critically acclaimed Death Stranding, which starred another familiar name,
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  Speaker 2: Norman Reedus from The Walking Dead.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's still fairly uncommon for A-listers to sign
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  Speaker 3: on to star in video games, but Bill is a
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  Speaker 3: big fan of Hideo's work, and he makes games that
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  Speaker 3: are just kind of truly cinematic.
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  Speaker 2: There's still no release date yet for Fizint. It will
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  Speaker 2: be exclusive to Xbox, and Bill can be seen on
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  Speaker 2: screen next to the Mosquito Bowl hitting theaters October 30th.
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  Speaker 3: That's direct from Hollywood.