Pedro Pascal Expected a Mean Gilroy and Got an Intimate Drama
Pedro Pascal walked into Behemoth! braced for a fight. Deadline reports that at a Q&A after the film's premiere screening at the New York Film Festival, the Golden Globe-nominated actor said he thought Tony Gilroy was "gonna be kinda mean" before they worked together. What he found instead was a film he praised the director for making intimate.
Actors describe directors as demanding all the time, so the note worth keeping is the direction of the surprise: the expectation was harshness and the result, by Pascal's account, was tenderness. That is a nicer inversion than the usual premiere refrain about a gruelling shoot.
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Expecting a "mean" director and getting an intimate drama says less about Gilroy than about how reputations travel ahead of a first collaboration.
Or it says nothing about Gilroy at all — an actor's nervous prediction before a shoot is not testimony about anyone's temperament.