David Hayter Reveals Origins Of Legendary Solid Snake Ford Commercial

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When you’re a voice actor, something that you often have to do/want to do is that when you’re not attached to a big project, you do several small projects to earn some extra cash and keep everything flowing. After all, a person has to eat, right? But some people sometimes don’t expect these smaller gigs to lead to familiar territory. Yet they do because sometimes the people behind these smaller gigs are nerds and would love nothing more than to have a crossover for their product. Thanks to David Hayter, a great example of this was reminded to the world on Twitter.

If you don’t recognize the name, David Hayter is the legendary voice of Solid Snake from the Metal Gear Solid franchise. From the beginning, he made Snake a legendary voice and someone you wouldn’t want to mess with. He’s voiced Snake in many forms and series, including in a certain Nintendo crossover. But arguably, his most hilarious use of the voice was during a Ford commercial. Yes, as in the truck company. They got in two of the voice actors from the series, including Hayter, to voice a Codec conversation where they would discuss the truck Ford was selling. So, after it was brought up on Twitter, Hayter revealed the truth behind the commercial:

Here's the story:I did a commercial for Ford as a VO Actor, and the Producers were big Snake fans. So they said, "Hey, if we got permission from Konami to use Snake in an ad, would you do it?""Sure." I said, certain it would never happen.Then it did. Then I was stuck. https://t.co/4CO85cD73w

So yeah, that happened. On the one hand, we can’t blame Hayter for not thinking Konami would agree to do the crossover. They’re not the best company when it comes to playing with others. On the other hand, however, we can