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Pedro Pascal seemingly appeared out of nowhere to become one of Hollywood’s most beloved actors of recent years. He became a fan favourite playing Oberyn Martell in Game of Thrones, and by the time he was starring in Narcos, The Mandalorian, and The Last of Us, he was an A-list celebrity.
Despite his seeming meteoric rise, however, Pascal had been working steadily as an actor since the late 1990s, appearing on television shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Law and Order, and Homeland. Although he got his big break on TV and spent most of his early career working on the small screen, Pascal has since become a movie star as well with his recent role in Gladiator II and in Ari Aster’s upcoming western Eddington. He’s also slated to appear as Mister Fantastic in the Avengers franchise.
During a recent interview with Letterboxd, Pascal revealed that, like the roles he’s played over the years, his taste in movies is wide-ranging.
“I have so many favourite movies, so I have to break it down into kind of categories,” he said, explaining that he’d list the most influential movies in his life rather than the “snobby” ones that he’s grown to love in adulthood. “I’ll say All About Eve,” he said as his first choice. “Biggest impact as a kid, Poltergeist. Do the Right Thing. [And] Ingmar Bergman’s Fanny and Alexander, which I could also watch over and over and over again.”
This charmingly eclectic mixture of films features some of the greatest of all time. All About Eve is a showbiz drama starring Bette Davis as an ageing star who reluctantly brings a young actor played by Ann Baxter under her wing only to be stabbed in the back (metaphorically) in return. It features some iconic one liners, including, “Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy night,” and a deliciously over-the-top performance by Davis.
Poltergeist is another classic, though for very different reasons. Directed by Texas Chainsaw Massacre creator Tobe Hooper and scripted by Steven Spielberg, it centres around a nuclear family in suburbia that is beset by a malevolent paranormal presence that kidnaps their youngest child. It’s a formative movie for many children of the era. Rated PG in the US, children well under the age of 13 were cleared to see it, but with Hooper at the helm, it contains some truly terrifying sequences, such as when a man tears his face apart, piece by bloody piece.
Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing is yet another out-of-leftfield choice. The 1989 comedic drama is a seemingly easygoing low-budget film built around the simmering racial tensions of a Brooklyn neighbourhood in the sweltering heat of a New York summer. Featuring characters who feel more like real people than movie constructs, Lee’s film, unfortunately, remains as relevant today as it was 25 years ago.
Lastly, Fanny and Alexander is a film that might fit into both Pascal’s influential and snobby categories, although you don’t have to be a cinema nerd to love Bergman’s love-letter to childhood and dysfunctional families. Based on the director’s upbringing, Fanny and Alexander is seen through the eyes of the young Alexander, who grows up in a rambunctious Stockholm family and clashes with his puritanical stepfather. Bursting with life and colour, it is one of the most poignant and cinematic representations of family ever committed to screen.
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