![]() ![]() “I plan on trying to make it over to Belfast, because we’re going to be shooting Wonder Woman in London, and I want to see if I get there in time before they wrap so that I can just go and insert myself into the closing of one of the greatest television chapters in history.” And perhaps while in London for that superhero sequel, he might even get to say goodbye to Game of Thrones one more time. Following that, he is shooting Wonder Woman 2, which finally reunites him with Patty Jenkins after she directed Pascal in a pilot that was not taken to series (one of the most “haunting” collaborative losses of his career). After all, during our interview, the actor was headed to the Hawaiian set of J.C. It’s also something Pascal is likely intending to carry into the sequel, as well as his other projects. It’s some of their best performances in these supporting roles.” “But there’s really good performances from really talented actors that are cast in this movie, so I think that that’s something that sets Antoine’s movies apart from other commercial fare… how good Chloë Grace Moretz is, and David Harbour and Marton Csokas. “There’s plenty of humor and violence,” Pascal says of the first Equalizer. “Nothing against Legally Blonde or anything like that, but I guess I wasn’t in the mood, and I walked out of Legally Blondeand walked into Training Day when it was out in the theaters, and it was one of those completely unexpected moviegoing experiences that I’ll never forget.” A fan of Fuqua ever since, it is that director’s humanist touch that makes his action movies stand out from the pack. ![]() In this vein, Pascal confides he was all too eager to go through the rigorous audition process for this part, as he has been a fan of Fuqua’s gritty aesthetic ever since he made an early exit from a screening of Legally Blonde in 2001 and wandered into Fuqua and Washington’s first collaboration, Training Day. Returning to Boston-a homecoming Pascal welcomes after his years of regional theater there-Pascal plays McCall’s ex-partner and protégé from the agency… one who has been led to believe McCall is dead until the mentor shows up on his doorstep with information that their handler (Melissa Leo) has been murdered. In the case of The Equalizer 2, it is by providing a new vantage on Denzel Washington’s enigmatic take on Robert McCall (an ex-CIA spook/full-time fixer who was created by a 1980s TV show of the same name). “Everything in threes, I guess.” But it makes sense because, like on Game of Thrones, Pascal’s energy can re-contextualize what viewers might have otherwise taken for granted. “I’m all about the sequels, huh?” Pascal says with a sheepish chuckle. Prior to The Equalizer 2, Pascal played a whiskey-swigging American spy in Kingsman: The Golden Circle, and he’ll appear in an undisclosed role in Patty Jenkins’ Wonder Woman 2. For Pascal, it led to landing-through extensive audition processes-the chance to shake up one movie franchise after another. Much a citizen of the world, Pascal cut his teeth as an actor in New York University’s coveted Tisch School of the Arts and the many regional theaters of New England before he helped create the last genuinely amazing new character on Game of Thrones, Oberyn Martell.Īppearing only in the fourth season of the HBO fantasy flagship, Pascal made such a striking impression over eight episodes that the show mourned his loss by trying (and failing) to recreate his dead prince’s energy in the next season with the misguided introduction of his character’s daughters. ![]() Appearing as something like a franchise disruptor, writers and directors have learned a little secret: All stories seem to benefit from throwing Pascal into the proceedings and seeing what magnetic chaos ensues. And yet, once we started rolling, it felt like I was with a classmate.” He adds with a chortle, “A superior classmate.”ĭespite any self-effacement, Pascal has more than proven himself in recent years. “Here I am working with one of the greats, and I was more nervous than I’ve ever been and, consequently, more prepared than I had ever been. “That was what was so surreal,” Pascal continues. ![]() But it was their ability to connect as actors-as opposed to action figures in an elaborate franchise of stunts and explosions-that made working with Washington and Fuqua unique. Washington has famously said he considers himself a stage actor, and that theater will be his first and last love it’s something Pascal vouches for after seeing Washington in August Wilson’s Fences on Broadway. ![]()
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