September 25, 2023
Pedro Pascal says his brutal ‘Sport of Thrones’ scene with The Mountain was truly ‘stress-free’
Earlier than the actor was dodging mushroom zombies in “The Final of Us,” Pascal performed Dornish heartthrob Oberyn Martell in Season 4 of “Sport Of Thrones,” a personality who infamously will get his eyes gouged out by Gregor “The Mountain” Clegane (Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson).
Barbaric because it was to observe, the “Mandalorian” star remembers it as “one of the best a part of the day” in a brand new episode of sizzling wing interview present “Scorching Ones.”

Pascal instructed “Scorching Ones” host Sean Evans that he ended up falling “useless asleep” when filming the edge-of-your-seat second. (“Sport of Thrones” and “The Final of Us” are HBO reveals. CNN and HBO are each a part of the identical dad or mum firm, Warner Bros. Discovery.)

(From left) Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson and Pedro Pascal in 'Game of Thrones.'

“It was so sizzling once we had been capturing that scene. He is over me and he places his thumbs into my eyes and so they’ve received tubing by way of his physique into his forearms to his thumbs simply pumping this cool blood,” he stated, including that Björnsson was “the gentlest man ever.”

Pascal stated that the faux blood was “so cooling,” that when it was pumped throughout his face “it was very cathartic and I went into the deepest sleep I might been in.”

One good factor that got here from this scene for Pascal is maybe determining a sleep treatment.

“I understand now, as a result of I am not an excellent sleeper, I must be laid out with items of flesh, gelatinous, cool-to-the-touch face meat and pooling blood, and perhaps I will lastly get an excellent f**king night time’s sleep,” the actor joked whereas taking within the warmth of the hen wing he was consuming.

On second thought, perhaps he ought to attempt counting sheep as an alternative.