Pedro Pascal once told a story on a late-night show about how he actually got the role of Oberyn in Game of Thrones.
In the show Late Night with Seth Meyers in 2016, Pedro Pascal shared the story of how he snatched the major role of Oberyn Martell away from his acting protege because he realized that it actually suited him much better.
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Pedro Pascal saw himself more in the role of Oberyn
At that time, Pedro Pascal was the mentor of an aspiring actor who had just graduated from USC (drama school in Los Angeles).
This actor asked him for help with his first audition video. The script for a role in the HBO hit Game of Thrones consisted of a whole seventeen pages.
So Pedro Pascal took a closer look at the character and realized that it actually suited him much better than his student.
Because even though his protege had great acting skills, he was simply too young and moreover didn’t know the series, while Pascal was already a huge fan of Game of Thrones .
In this Tik-Tok video, you can hear how Pedro Pascal told the story:
Thus, the actor described Oberyn as a man “in his late 30s. He had about eight daughters. He was a whore. He is dangerous. I thought to myself: ‘This is perfect… for me!'”
Nevertheless, Pedro Pascal supported his student in recording the video. But as soon as the student disappeared to the bathroom, he immediately wrote to his own manager to apply for the role.
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After the lesson was over, he filmed his own application video for Oberyn. But then came the next hurdle: How could the actor ensure that it would be seen?
He got help from actress and good friend Sarah Paulson. After he contacted her with his request, she used her contacts to help Pedro Pascal.
She is friends with Amanda Peet, as he mentioned. Amanda, in turn, is married to David Benioff, one of the showrunners of Game of Thrones. Thus, Sarah Paulson could ensure that Pedro Pascal’s application video was viewed directly by those responsible – successfully.
After that, Pedro Pascal was supposed to send in another video, which he did. Unbeknownst to him whether he had gotten the role or not, he began to get nervous.
Then came a call from Sarah Paulson, in which she revealed: “Well, just listen to me. I know things, okay? And I can’t say anything and I don’t know anything, but I know things […] So, I just don’t want you to worry.”
He didn’t know that he had the role long ago
Shortly thereafter, the actor was invited to Belfast. Pedro Pascal thought he had to audition again to get the role, but as he recounted in the show, he actually already had it, but didn’t know because no one had informed him:
“They said: ‘You’re going to love Croatia’ and ‘Meet the director’ and ‘Do a costume fitting.’ […] and I still hadn’t had the courage to ask them if I had gotten the role!”
When asked how his relationship with his acting student was currently, Pedro Pascal only grinned and replied: “I should message him on WhatsApp when this is over. Then I can say: ‘I finally cleared the air, man!'”
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