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Superman, The Justice League, and Wonder Woman (with Wonder Woman 1984 arriving on Christmas Day 2020), and prior to that Linda Carter was the face of the character dating back to her 1970’s series (you can read more about that show at this link). “(It's) a lot like the Mandalorian.These days, Gal Godot is recognized worldwide as the Amazonian Princess Diana of Themyscira (aka Wonder Woman) after having appeared in the DCEU movies Batman vs. which is such a mask with so much going on just beneath it, that contradicts so much what sort of physical message he’s portray with his persona," Pascal said. “Max Lord has such an exterior armor with hair products and power suits. He remembers being in initial talks for the role with Jon Favreau right before flying to London to film "Wonder Woman."Īnd although Max Lord and the mysterious bounty hunter couldn't be more different, there is a fairly poignant similarity that's not lost on Pascal. Since getting cast in “Wonder Woman 1984,” Pascal’s star has risen immeasurably thanks to the wildly popular Star Wars spinoff “The Mandalorian,” which just concluded its second season on Disney+. With an incredible attention to detail, she created suits for Max Lord that Pascal said were at turns “garish and sophisticated,” “colorful and stylish” and “just on the verge of obnoxious. But, he said, the Oscar-winning costume designer Lindy Hemming was a “magician” on “Wonder Woman 1984.” On the 1980s-set Netflix show “Narcos” Pascal even lobbied for his DEA agent character to wear more 1970s styles. “I felt like I (would) look stupid in baggy stuff.” “I’m not one to pull off an ’80s look very well, in my opinion,” Pascal laughed. Kristen Wiig talks about hosting this year’s "Saturday Night Live" Christmas episode and filming "Wonder Woman 1984." He was, he admitted, a little nervous about the costumes though. “I still have trouble wrapping my head around the opportunity.” “I didn’t care what it was,” Pascal said. So when the chance to work with her again came up, he knew what his answer was going to be. In between the two films, they’d also crossed paths when Jenkins directed him in a pilot that never got picked up.
Pascal had long been a fan of Jenkins’ work: He remembers seeing “Monster” in a Manhattan theater and having to wait until the credits played out to leave because he was crying so hard, and being especially moved by the No Man’s Land sequence in “Wonder Woman."
There was something about Pedro that I knew he could hit every different mark and also reveal a side of himself I wasn’t sure that even he had gotten to use yet.” “But when I was sitting and thinking about who could pull this off, I just knew that he could do it. I thought he was such a great guy and such an interesting person and an excellent actor,” Jenkins said. It was producer Charles Roven, who he’d worked with on “Triple Frontier,” who initially called Pascal saying that Jenkins wanted to meet. ‘Wonder Woman 1984' Hopes to Lasso a Little Holiday Joy “He’s an immigrant who is trying to live up to appearing to be his idea of the American dream,” Jenkins said. on Christmas Day, Max Lord is a divorced dad, minor television personality and wannabe oil tycoon whose wealth is mostly smoke and mirrors until he gets hold of a powerful, wish-granting stone.
In the film, which debuts in theaters and on HBO Max in the U.S. “The thing that would ultimately anchor me to him was far more vulnerable than what a Gordon Gekko-type would be.” “What we went after was so much more unpredictable and exposed,” he said. But it was a call that he ended up loving in the end. It was a nerve-wracking realization for Pascal, who thought he’d be able to hide behind the slickness of a cold and calculating finance guy. “She was like, ‘that’s not the polish that we’re after.’” “She pulled me away from that,” Pascal said. (Both say it wasn’t Donald Trump, either.) Who better to model his power suit-wearing striver on than the embodiment of 1980s greed and callousness?īut director Patty Jenkins had something different in mind than the Michael Douglas character. When Pedro Pascal started to think about his “Wonder Woman 1984” villain Max Lord, one name came to mind: Gordon Gekko.
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