Pedro Pascal reveals he got an eye infection after many fans took selfies with their thumbs in his eyes following his character’s iconic death in ‘Game of Thrones’

Pedro Pascal reveals he got an eye infection after many fans took selfies with their thumbs in his eyes following his character’s iconic death in ‘Game of Thrones’.

“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,” Pascal recalled in The Hollywood Reporter’s new Drama Actor Roundtable, which also included Jeff Bridges, Kieran Culkin, Damson Idris, Michael Imperioli, and Evan Peters. “And at first, I was so earnest and happy about the success of the character in the show, I’d let them!”

Pascal added with a laugh, “And then I remember getting a bit of an eye infection.”

Culkin quipped, “Wow, that’s a lot of trust.”

Before his turns as Din Djarin on The Mandalorian and Joel on The Last of Us, Pascal played Oberyn Martell on season 4 of the hit HBO fantasy drama series. The character met his gruesome death after Gregor “The Mountain” Clegane (Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson) gouged his eyes out and cracked his skull in episode 8, “The Mountain and the Viper.”

The Last of Us and The Mandalorian actor played Prince Oberyn Martell in the HBO fantasy juggernaut, until the character met one of Westeros’ most grisly ends when Gregor ‘The Mountain’ Clegane gouged his eyes out and crushed his skull.

In a recent roundtable discussion with some other big name actors for The Hollywood Reporter, Pascal stated that: “I remember, early 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! In New York! Of all places. And then I remember getting a bit of an eye infection.”

The comments were part of a conversation about fandom and boundaries, and when Pascal admitted that he used to let his fans do that, Succession star Kieran Culkin expressed surprise at the amount of trust his fellow actor was putting in people.