Smiff, and other actors, and we did a lot of fight choreography and rehearsals. Then once I got to Europe and started shooting, there were really intensive fight rehearsals with me and the stunt team that was headed by C.C. And this was a guy who actually did Shaolin movies with Jet Li very early in Jet Li's career, and fought alongside him as his sidekick, so he was the real deal. I was put into some classes with a master of Wushu, an acrobatic martial art, and they put me with a master, his name is Master Hu, and he has a studio in Los Angeles where he sort of basically showed me the basics and taught me how to fight with a spear and twist my body around and move in ways I never thought possible. "The production of Game of Thrones actually put me in some pre-training before I went to Europe to start shooting. įor his fight training for Oberyn's duel with Ser Gregor Clegane, Pascal said: This led to some minor complications, because staffers had to keep refilling the bowls to make sure the scenes were internally consistent (if Oberyn only ate one berry in the story, but they refilmed the scene multiple times, the bowl would end up nearly empty by the later takes because he was actually eating them each time). Therefore he was not simply miming the act of eating the prop food (such as when he eyes Loras during the feast) and was munching on them when the cameras were not rolling. The production team decorated his table at the Purple Wedding with berries, and the room in the brothel had a bowl of nuts and berries. Pascal is actually allergic to cats - and his character Oberyn loathes the Lannister family, whose sigil is coincidentally a big cat (a golden lion). The last scene that he filmed was from " First of His Name" when Cersei comes to talk to Oberyn in the gardens, and at the end he and Lena Headey (Cersei) are staring out over the Adriatic Sea talking about Cersei's daughter. The first scene that Pedro Pascal filmed for the TV series was the scene from the end of " Mockingbird" in which Oberyn visits Tyrion in his prison cell. Given that Oberyn dies at the end of the season he is introduced in, Pascal was aware from the start that it was not an ongoing role and that his character would be killed off by the end of Season 4. Almost all of the chapters that Oberyn appears in were told from Tyrion's POV. Therefore, Pascal skipped ahead and read all of the chapters in A Storm of Swords that Oberyn directly appears in - starting with Chapter 38 ("Tyrion V"), which is primarily focused on Oberyn's introduction when he arrives in King's Landing (corresponding to the Season 4 premiere, though some of the dialogue was moved around between episodes). Pascal still wanted to devote effort to researching his character, however, and Oberyn only appears in the second half of the third novel, A Storm of Swords (adapted as "Season 4"). Game of ThronesĪfter being cast as Oberyn Martell in Game of Thrones Season 4, Pascal did not have enough time to read all of the very long novels. He has a prolific stage career on Broadway and previously acted on several American TV series including recurring roles on The Good Wife and Graceland. He attended Orange County School of the Arts and then New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. His parents escaped the Chilean military dictatorship and he was raised in Texas and California.
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