Pedro Pascal Explained Why Game Of Thrones Was The Role That 'Changed' His Life (And I’m Hoping His Last Of Us Character Doesn't Have The Same Fate) (2024)

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Pedro Pascal Explained Why Game Of Thrones Was The Role That 'Changed' His Life (And I’m Hoping His Last Of Us Character Doesn't Have The Same Fate)? ›

The role that changed my life was in Game of Thrones. I will always credit its creators for taking a chance on someone who had nothing but unknown theater credits and episodic television on their résumé. I still awe at the opportunity that was handed to me by David Benioff, Dan Weiss, and Carolyn Strauss.

Despite his wayward ways and liberal attitude towards sexuality, Oberyn was very devoted to his family, telling his lover Ellaria that any other person would always have to wait behind her for his affection. He was very close with his sister, Elia, and took her death very hard.

Now Din Djarin from The Mandalorian and Joel from The Last of Us, Pascal was first Oberyn Martell in the fourth season of the HBO series, hero of Dorne, brutally murdered by Gregor Clegane (Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson), who gouged out his eyes in the sand until his skull was broken.

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Sarah Paulson came to Pascal's rescue by showing his audition tape to David Benioff, one of the showrunners of Game of Thrones, ultimately helping Pascal land the role of Oberyn Martell.

Lena Headey - 2014

Lena and Pedro were linked in 2014 after meeting on the Game of Thrones set. Pedro played Oberyn Martell while Lena played Cersei Lannister. The couple looked to be an item when Lena shared a snap of her cozying up to Pedro in April 2014. "Sunshine love," she captioned the snap.

Pascal's salary for his all-too-brief tenure on Game of Thrones in Season 4 hasn't been made public. That said, we do know that Kit Harington, one of the leads, made $500,000 per episode in the series' prime—so we can assume Pascal made somewhere in the tens of thousands per episode during his arc as Oberyn Martell.

Had Oberyn not altered the poison he used, he would have beaten the Mountain after landing only a single attack.

Tyrion tracks Oberyn to a whor*house. Oberyn tells Tyrion the motive for his visit: revenge against the Lannisters for raping and murdering his sister, Elia, wife of Prince Rhaegar Targaryen.

Since Daenerys is the great-granddaughter of House of the Dragon's Rhaenyra and Daemon Targaryen, generational logic would suggest that Game of Thrones' Oberyn Martell is the great-great-great-great-great grandson of Rhaenyra and Daemon.

She temporarily loses her eyesight as part of her training with the Faceless Men. She is also a warg* (though she doesn't realize it), and losing her eyesight helps her learn to use her warging abilities to the fullest.

Who killed Oberyn? ›

Gregor pins Oberyn down, punches him with such force that his teeth fly out, and then begins to eye gouge him. As he does this, he admits to his crimes, and it's the last thing Oberyn ever would've heard, given seconds later, Gregor crushes Oberyn's head, causing it to explode in a bloody mess.

Bran promptly names Tyrion as his Hand of the King, sparing him from punishment. A few days later, Tyrion presides over the Small Council meeting held shortly after Bran's election, once again wearing the Hand brooch gifted by Daenerys.

After he was born, his parents took him as a baby to Denmark because his socialist family was forced to go into exile by the Pinochet dictatorship.

Pedro is so busy with his career that he seemingly puts his love life on the back burner. He brought his sister, Lux Pascal, as his date to the 2023 Emmy Awards instead of a romantic partner. Pedro's never been married, but he has been linked to a few famous actresses that he's worked with over the years.

The main reason Pascal has become so beloved is due to his versatility as an actor. Throughout his career, Pascal has appeared in a wide variety of genres and has played starkly contrasting characters that maintain an essence of protective nature.

Her relationship with Pedro Pascal mirrors their characters' relationship. Pascal's character on Game of Thrones, Oberyn Martell, was killed off before Ramsey joined the show two seasons later, so the pair didn't meet until production began on The Last of Us in July 2021.

Pedro Pascal said that filming his "Game of Thrones" death was actually very "cathartic." His character, Oberyn Martell, had his skull crushed in one of the show's brutal deaths. Pascal said that he was so relaxed he fell "dead asleep."

Despite both Pedro and Bella having appeared in Game Of Thrones before The Last Of Us came calling, they revealed during a new joint interview with Deadline that their paths never actually crossed until work was about to begin on the post-apocalyptic series.