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Fair enough. I doubt Kojima would retcon that too.

So I can see two reasons for the same voice actor. The most popular one is that Ishmael is a hallucination, a projection from BB in his delirious state after waking up. Ishmael does not exist and BB rescues himself from the hospital.

The other option could be that for the trailer, Kojima used Sutherland as the VA in order to trial what Sutherland sounded like, and whether he would use that voice for Snake or not?