Hideo Kojima Cast Margaret Qualley in Death Stranding After Seeing Her Dance in This Wonderfully Bizarre Perfume Ad

Hideo Kojima has revealed helium formed Margaret Qualley for the relation of Death Stranding's Mama aft seeing her successful a Spike Jonez fragrance advertisement.

Sharing the viral commercialized successful a tweet earlier today, April 25, Kojima wrote: "I saw this and offered her the relation of Mama (Lockne) successful Death Stranding."

The advert shows Qualley dancing to a bassy creation track, overmuch similar Fat Boy Slim's viral video for Weapon of Choice, which starred a twinkled-toed Christopher Walken.

Qualley plays Bridges subordinate Mama — Målingen — successful Kojima Productions' Death Stranding, 1 of the greatest, gadget-inventing scientists moving successful the United Cities of America. With her duplicate sister, Lockne, besides played by Qualley, she besides created the Chiral Network, Bridges' communications web which allows for instantaneous information transfer.

In the Kenzo fragrance advertisement, Qualley performs an antithetic but choreographed creation regular wherein she shakes, grimaces, and occasionally spasms, astatine 1 constituent firing lasers from her fingers. In different conception of the antithetic performance, she dances arsenic she struggles to power her limbs. You tin ticker the full, bizarre, and incredibly entertaining show below:

I saw this and offered her the relation of Mama (Lockne) successful Death Stranding. https://t.co/UDJa2NjbO6

"You are a visionary, Kojima-san," replied 1 fan, portion different quipped: "I bash this astir mornings, Kojima-san. Hire maine too."

Kojima is moving connected Death Stranding 2, which is retired connected June 26, 2025, the live-action Death Stranding movie with A24, and the Xbox-published OD, which helium describes arsenic "a crippled I person ever wanted to make." He's besides moving connected a PlayStation exclusive enactment espionage project.

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