I don’t know if we’re close to the same age… I’m 41.
Good example, I fucking love “Robocop.” So how much did you think back to your own childhood seeing all of these movies with your family when you were working out this performance?
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This movie is set in the ’80s, and there’s a certain kind of big acting that was done in big studio blockbusters at that time, from the Christopher Reeve “Superman” movies to something like “Robocop,” where the villains especially were just huge. And yet, just as much of a mask in a way - more than I’m used to doing. So from everything you’re saying and what Patty Jenkins has also said about this part, it seems safe to assume, if we’re talking about an acting spectrum standpoint, what you’re doing on “The Mandalorian” is on one end, and what you’re doing as Max Lord is very much on the on the other. And this was just a practical way of, instead of going home tired and putting Netflix on or something, it was like, actually deal with this physical thing, doodle and think about it and run it. So I feel like I had to wake myself up again in big way. And so I knew that ultimately you’re gonna have to make big choices and act your ass off in some instances. What threw me off in the best of ways was that I saw a real creative challenge, which isn’t necessarily what you would expect if you’re going to do a superhero movie. It was more sort of like a process exercise, realizing that there isn’t any one thing that I always do. You know what I mean? Was this a character exercise for you, or more of an artistic exercise? It’s just a way to sit and sort of like meditate on it. But one of the practical ways that I chose to focus, essentially, was making like a ridiculous sort of book out of my script. I remember feeling a little work weary going into “Wonder Woman,” but I also knew that to work with Patty, you can’t be weary, or you use that weariness and push it to its ultimate limits, so that there’s always this sort of like brimming vulnerability to working with her. But I just got it out of storage, strangely. Listen, I promise you that I did not plan this. Oh my gosh, it’s sitting right next to me. Obviously, in this case, the ’80s version in this, like, you know, brilliant… But my first introduction to the character was Patty and Geoff’s script, and there was such a very specific vision to the kind of character that he is in this telling of “Wonder Woman.” And then I started to understand the different, generational versions of Max Lord, and which ones to lean into. I think that once I started to research, it started to ring a small bell. Were you familiar with all of that when when you got the role? Maxwell Lord in the comics has a very storied history, one of these sort of villainous characters who weaves in and out of a lot of different storylines.
Pascal also discussed his childhood consuming American pop-culture, his appreciation for Jenkins’ ’80s-soaked aesthetics for “WW84,” and his first experience on a “Wonder Woman” project: David E. In this excerpt from Pascal’s interviews for Variety‘s October cover story on the actor, the 45-year-old revealed over Zoom the surprising methodology he used to attack the role of Max Lord, a self-described “television personality and businessman” whose desperate drive for constant success puts him at odds with Gal Gadot’s Diana Prince. Gal Gadot Talks 'Wonder Woman 1984' and the Future of Movie Theaters New Movies to Watch This Week: 'Wonder Woman 1984,' 'Soul,' 'Sylvie's Love'
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,” raved Uproxx’s Mike Ryan - “Wonder Woman 1984” could catapult the star of one of the year’s other standout hits, “The Mandalorian,” to even greater career heights.īox Office: 'Wonder Woman 1984' Debuts to Robust (for a Pandemic) $16.7 Million
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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.
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