During the making of Metal Gear Solid, Guest was the second choice for
the role of Mei Ling because the producers balked at hiring Guest who
at the time was an inexperienced voice actress to voice such a fairly
important role. The person originally favored for the role
botched their final audition so badly Guest ended up getting the role,
which is arguably her most famous one to date.
On voicing a character's death for the first time: "It was said to me
that I was the first woman that they heard that effectively conveyed
the process of dying that also did not sound like I was experiencing
some kind of sexual pleasure."
