Pedro Pascal Got Eye Infection From A Fan When Recreating His Gruesome Game Of Thrones Death

Pedro Pascal once got an eye infection by letting Game of Thrones fans jam their thumbs in his eye.

Pascal, who found global fame playing Oberyn Martell in the hit HBO show a decade ago, said fans were so obsessed with recreating his character’s violent death — that saw him have his eyes gouged out by Gregor ‘The Mountain’ Clegane (Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson) — when they met him and asked for selfies.

Speaking in The Hollywood Reporter’s Drama Actors Roundtable, Pascal said: “I remember, earlier on, because of Game of Thrones and the way my character died people were super into taking selfies with their thumbs in my eyes.

“At first, I was so earnest and happy about the success of the character in the show, I’d let them!

“And then I remember getting a bit of an eye infection.”

Pascal appeared at the round table alongside Jeff Bridges, Kieran Culkin, Damson Idris, Michael Imperioli, and Evan Peters.

His tale prompted Culkin to say: “Wow, that’s a lot of trust.”

The Last of Us actor previously shared that he dozed off while filming the horrificYou  death scene.

He told Hot Ones' Sean Evans in March: “It was so hot when we were shooting that scene.

“[Björnsson is] over me and he puts his thumbs into my eyes and they’ve got tubing through his body into his forearms to his thumbs just pumping this cool blood.”

Pascal added Björnsson was "the gentlest guy ever”, and said the fake blood used in the scene was “so cooling” during the sweltering day that “I went into the deepest sleep I’d been in.”

He said: “I realise now, because I’m not a very good sleeper, I need to be laid out with pieces of flesh — gelatinous, cool-to-the-touch face meat — and pooling blood, and maybe I’ll finally get a good f****** night’s sleep.”

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