Death Stranding: Mads Mikkelsen explains how he came to star in the year's strangest game

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. "I think the only one who knew exactly how this will play out is Hideo Kojima," he says, referring to the game's lauded creator. But Death Stranding has little concern for traditional terms, and the Danish actor and inveterate baddy is clear that the game is not about "good people and bad people". Then the actors headed off to the storyboard – a vast sketch "full of cartoons and drawings, like a graphic novel", says Mikkelsen. One might presume that actors would be used to this from wildly CGI films such as Doctor Strange, but Mikkelsen notes that in those cases "you're still wearing your costume, there's still some kind of set, some kind of props that are the real thing".