David Bateson’s wife wants him to get a barcode tattoo on the back of his slick head. That way he can look even more like the character he’s best known for voicing – Hitman‘s protagonist, Agent 47. Looking at him on the video call, he could easily play the part in a live-action show where Agent 47 has hung up his silverballer pistols, but he’s pulled back into the world of assassination, buffing up his shiny dome for one last job. That’s what the people of IO Interactive’s home of Copenhagen must have seen when Bateson headed over for a booze-up – a grizzled professional returning for more wetwork.
“We had a Hitman 3 launch party that was delayed by 15 months, and I was wearing a tattoo – a transfer that was made in Germany – and I forgot I had it on,” Bateson tells GLHF. “I got onto the train to come into town and I scared the crap out of people. I’m in character and I’m dressed like the man, they’re looking at the barcode in the back of my head and the cameras are coming out, they’re doing sneaky little selfies.”
