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How ‘The Mandalorian’ Star Pedro Pascal Created His Own Big Break In Hollywood · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Pedro Pascal is well
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Speaker 1: on his way to superstar and playing the title role
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Speaker 1: in The Mandalorian and the central villain in the upcoming
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Speaker 1: Wonder Woman nine four. But only a few years ago,
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Speaker 1: Pedro was a starving actor desperate for his big break.
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Speaker 1: But what set him apart was he didn't wait for
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Speaker 1: that break to come. Instead, he helped create it for himself.
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Speaker 1: The role that changed everything was his performance of Obrian
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Speaker 1: Martel in Game of Thrones. But Pedro wasn't asked to audition.
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Speaker 1: He knew he was made for the job, so he
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Speaker 1: shot his own audition. Then he pleaded with his friend
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Speaker 1: Sarah Paulson to pass it along to her best friend,
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Speaker 1: Amanda Pete, a man is married to Game of Throne
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Speaker 1: show runner David Bennie offf recalls to Variety, first of all,
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Speaker 1: it was an iPhone selfie audition, which was unusual, and
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Speaker 1: this wasn't one of the new fangled iPhones with fancy cameras.
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Speaker 1: It looked awful, it was shot vertically. The whole thing
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Speaker 1: was very amateurish, except for the performance, which was intense
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Speaker 1: and believable and just right. Pedro booked a job and
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Speaker 1: never looked back. Season two of The Mandalorian hits Disney
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Speaker 1: plus October's direct from Hollywood