He was not refused
Billionaire Elon Musk interrupted a recording session for Cyberpunk 2077 to demand his inclusion in the game. This is described in the biography of the billionaire written by journalist Walter Isaacson.
One of the chapters talks about how Musk came into the studio with a gun. At this point, the mother of his children, Grimes, was recording her lines for Cyberpunk 2077. At some point, Musk appeared in the studio and insisted on getting a cameo role. The developers relented and added an NPC similar to him to the game.
Elon Musk, with a pistol in his hands, demanded to be included in Cyberpunk 2077
“When Grimes was recording the voice of the cyborg pop star she played in the video game Cyberpunk 2077, he showed up at the studio with a two-hundred-year-old pistol and insisted on being given a cameo,” writes Walter Isaacson. “The guys in the studio got nervous.”
Isaacson noted that Musk was passionate about the game Cyberpunk 2077 because he was close to the topic of augmentations for the human body due to his work at the company Neuralink, which works on brain implants.
Previously, Elon Musk’s brain chip startup Neuralink began accepting applications for volunteers to test a brain implant on patients with paralysis.
