Pedro Pascal, a Chilean-American actor, has said that he contracted an eye infection after allowing Game of Thrones fans to poke their thumbs into his eye.
The 48-year-old actor rose to popularity as Oberyn Martell in the hit HBO drama approximately ten years ago, and he claims that viewers were fascinated with replicating his character’s brutal demise, in which Gregor ‘The Mountain’ Clegane gouged out his eyes, when they met him and asked for photographs.
He told The Hollywood Reporter’s ‘Drama Actors Roundtable’, “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 excited about the success of the character in the show that I let them!”
“And then I remember getting a bit of an eye infection.”
Pedro joined Jeff Bridges, Kieran Culkin, Damson Idris, Michael Imperioli, and Evan Peters around the round table.
Kieran’s reaction to his story was, “Wow, that’s a lot of trust.”
Pedro went on to play Din Djarin on The Mandalorian and Joel on The Last of Us after ‘Game of Thrones’. His character died in the fourth season’s episode eight, The Mountain and the Viper.
