During an interview, Pedro Pascal talked about the most memorable and rare interactions he had with fans and recalled that, after the success of Game of Thrones, he got an eye infection from letting his eyes be squeezed to recreate a certain moment from the movie. series.
Every famous person must have many moments recorded in their minds about their interactions with fans, some good and some weird and controversial. Peter Pascalthe Chilean actor who was in several successful series (such as Narcos, The Mandalorian, The Last of Us and Game of Thrones), he said that one of the latter left him with an eye infection.
During an episode of actor roundtable of The Hollywood Reporter, in which they were Jeff Bridges (The Old Man), Kieran Culkin (Succession), Damson Idris (Snowfall and Swarm), Michael Imperioli (The White Lotus), Evan Peters (Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story) and Pedro Pascal, the interviewer asked them how they usually interact in person with their followers. Given this, the Chilean actor surprised more than one with what some fans of game of Thrones to take selfies.
“I remember before, due to game of throness and the way my character died, people were so into taking selfies with their thumbs in my eyes”, explained Pascal while some of those present laughed. “That’s a lot of confidence.”Told him culkin.
Recall that in the fourth season of GoTwhen Tyrion Lanniester He requests a trial by combat to free himself from the accusation that made him the murderer of Joffrey Baratheonthe character of Pascal, Oberyn Martell, represents him and fights for him against Gregor “The Mountain” Clegane. This confrontation ended with one of the most brutal deaths in the series.
At first, Oberyn was winning the fight, even knocking down The mountain. However, the Prince of Dorne is careless in trying to boast of his near victory and Clegane catches him off guard and squeezes the character’s eyes Pascal to the point of crushing his skull.
In the recent interview, the actor added that this rare request from fans to take a photo and recreate the iconic scene ended with him getting an eye infection. “At first, I was so serious and happy about the character’s success on the show, and I left them! In New York of all places! And then I remember I had a little infection in my eye.”