When Pedro Pascal was offered the role of Max Lord in “Wonder Woman 1984,” he’d been working almost non-stop since his breakout performance as Oberyn Martell on “Game of Thrones.” In just a few short years, the Chilean-born actor had bounced from shooting the Netflix series “Narcos” to action franchises “Kingsman: The Golden Circle” and “The Equalizer 2” to a memorable (and uncredited) cameo in the acclaimed drama “If Beale Street Could Talk.” By the time he landed in Hawaii for pre-production on the Netflix thriller “Triple Frontier,” Pascal was, in his words, “a little work weary.” But the opportunity to be directed by Patty Jenkins as the main villain in a giant superhero movie was simply too enticing to pass up.
With reviews singling out Pascal’s performance — “This year has not offered up a lot of reasons to just smile, but every second of Pedro Pascal’s performance made me do this,...
With reviews singling out Pascal’s performance — “This year has not offered up a lot of reasons to just smile, but every second of Pedro Pascal’s performance made me do this,...
- 12/24/2020
- by Adam B. Vary
- Variety Film + TV
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