User blog comment:Gekkou30/No David Hayter So?/@comment-82.22.103.164-20130521210934

I generally agree with the fact that there seems to be a decent amount of reasons for a voice change.

But your point about Hayter being a dick because he wouldn't give you Kojima's phone number? I'm not bloody surprised he ignored you, what kind of idiotic question is that? I doubt that Hayter has met with Kojima many times. There's no real reason for a Japanese executive game producer to meet the English-language actor for a character other than general niceties. The whole team of English-language voice actors will have worked very closely with the localisation director for Konami or even a smaller recording studio, not the original Japanese developer Kojima Productions. You have to remember that David Hayter will have been working with a team in America trying to translate the games, not the original developer.

Therefore it's entirely reasonable for him to say he doesn't know how to contact Kojima - they've probably met no more than a handful of times. Would you expect Kojima to meet personally with other actors in international translations? He's hardly going to catch a flight to Copenhagen to meet an actor if they do a Danish translation (I'm not sure if that has been done already) - so I doubt he and Hayter know each other well.

You've even undermined your own point by saying that Hayter communicates with Kojima through his agent - so they don't have a personal relationship. I'm not at all surprised he got irritated by your question and it certainly doesn't make him a dick. In short: stop whining.