It was a hard thing because the minute you put Tobin Bell in the movie, it becomes Saw 9.
No one can compete with Tobin Bell, you can’t, he is Jigsaw and there’s no way to live up to what he brings on-screen, so I didn’t want to fuck with it, I didn’t want to do it.
I killed him in Saw III, I killed him 16 years ago, so to keep finding clever ways to bring him back in, I didn’t want to do a disservice to this film.
There was a constant struggle with us and I think we all went back and forth on it.