Pedro Pascal Through the Years: ‘Game of Thrones,’ ‘Narcos,’ ‘The Last of Us’ and More
usmagazine.comFrom bit parts to starring roles. Pedro Pascal spent nearly two decades taking one-off acting gigs in film and television before he rose to prominence for his role on Game of Thrones in 2014.The Chile native joined the cast of the fantasy drama in season 4 as Oberyn Martell.“It was a dream, you know,” Pascal said of his tenure on the HBO series during an April 2022 interview with British GQ. “It was this great role, at the height of the show’s popularity, a perfectly written season, a perfectly written role — go in, shoot for 10 weeks, leave.”The Wonder Woman 1984 actor added: “Nobody got a chance to be sick of me.
I had comfortable costumes, which is a miracle. I didn’t have a heavy wig. I might have been the luckiest human to have passed through that show.”GoT showrunner David Benioff revealed during an October 2020 Variety interview that Pascal’s audition was shot on an iPhone and “looked like s—t.” He told the outlet at the time: “The whole thing was very amateurish.
Except for the performance, which was intense and believable and just right.”In order to view the video, please allow Manage CookiesPascal’s star continued to rise when he was cast as DEA agent Javier Peña on the Netflix series Narcos in 2015.
On the silver screen, he appeared in films including Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017), Triple Frontier (2019) and The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022), which he costarred in with Nicolas Cage.
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