Pedro Pascal may have become an acting icon thanks to Game of Thrones and The Last Of Us but that doesn’t mean preparing lines comes easy to him.
The 48-year-old star split die-hard fan opinions as he was revealed as the new Reed Richards for the latest Marvel reboot of The Fantastic Four.
As he prepares to slip into spandex as the iconic Mr Fantastic, Pedro will have to learn a lot of lines and he confessed an incredibly unusual method for memorising them.
He went as far as calling his method ‘psychotic’ as he discussed how he lays out everything in a cryptic code to avoid anxiety around forgetting lines.
Pedro pulled out a sheet written in bizarre one-letter columns, leaving fellow actors Billy Crudup, Matthew Macfadyen, and Kieran Culkin gobsmacked.
‘Weirdly, I bet I could find and show you the psychotic example – a physical example that I have now that I have to do to learn my lines,’ he had said.
The famous face joined together for a chat orchestrated by SAG, as they were all nominees for best male actor in a drama series, moderated by film critic Scott Mantz.
The Kingsman star had looked around him to find an example as the men chatted about how they struggle to articulate how exactly they learn all their lines.
‘What have you got there Pedro?’ Succession star Kieran asked as the Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent actor held his cryptic sheet to the camera.
‘So this is like I’m a psycho, the first letter of every…’ Pedro began before he was interrupted and his friend shouted: ‘Gibberish!’
Jaws dropped as the panel reacted, with Kieran holding his head in his hands as Billy asked Pedro to explain further the unhinged method.
‘So you just see the bunch of letters right, so it’ll be… so basically,’ he stopped and quipped: ‘I’m the Unabomber.’
Each letter is a word, listed in columns in what Pedro called a ‘tedious way of making yourself learn the line’.
He added: ‘It really isn’t that artistic, it’s this really technical way I’ve had to acquire because of that horrible experience of forgetting your lines. Taking all the magic away!’
Fans of the Last of Us actor were baffled by the confession, comparing his lists to the letters of the infamous Zodiac killer, whose identity is a mystery, on X.
‘Is anyone else getting Zodiac cypher vibes? What the hell, baby, what is that?’ tweeted Lynn Driscoll.
Jaws dropped as the panel reacted, with Kieran holding his head in his hands as Billy asked Pedro to explain further the unhinged method.
‘So you just see the bunch of letters right, so it’ll be… so basically,’ he stopped and quipped: ‘I’m the Unabomber.’
Each letter is a word, listed in columns in what Pedro called a ‘tedious way of making yourself learn the line’.
He added: ‘It really isn’t that artistic, it’s this really technical way I’ve had to acquire because of that horrible experience of forgetting your lines. Taking all the magic away!’
Fans of the Last of Us actor were baffled by the confession, comparing his lists to the letters of the infamous Zodiac killer, whose identity is a mystery, on X.
‘Is anyone else getting Zodiac cypher vibes? What the hell, baby, what is that?’ tweeted Lynn Driscoll.
