20 Things You Didn't Know About Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

20. Kiefer Sutherland Has Just 22 Minutes Of Dialogue In The Game

Kiefer Sutherland's casting as Big Boss proved hugely divisive with fans, who were of course expecting regular Solid Snake/Big Boss voice actor David Hayter to return.

Hideo Kojima's recast rationale was that he wanted an actor who could perform a full range of performance beyond voice acting, and so opted for a card-carrying Hollywood star instead.

Curiously, though, despite being by far the most prominent actor in the game, Sutherland actually has the least lines of any of the game's major characters, save only for the mostly-mute Quiet (Stefanie Joosten).

All in all, Sutherland's recorded lines in the final game amount to just 22 minutes of spoken dialogue, which is obviously a far cry from Hayter's more extensive, wordy work in the previous games.

Sutherland certainly did a great job with what little he had, but fans were understandably desperate to hear a little more from Venom Snake.