#Behemoth star Pedro Pascal on the @Variety Awards Circuit Podcast. You spent about two decades taking small roles onstage and on television before “Game of Thrones” changed everything. You were 39. Someone out there is in those forming years, waiting for that moment. What do you wish someone had told you back then? What I would tell anyone is that if you’re waking up every day and trying, and some days that means not doing anything at all, but you have intention behind your pursuit, you’re in love with what you’re pursuing and you’re pursuing it in your own way, you are exactly where you’re supposed to be. Have faith in that. I think it’s a huge mistake if you feel like you need to mold yourself into something that doesn’t feel true to yourself, or meet an expectation that even fractionally feels like some kind of internal betrayal. You’ve got to eat shit, and you’ve got to take a lot of shit. That’s part of it. It’s a huge part of it for me, because it forms character, hopefully in the direction of knowing how to treat other people and protecting the value of generosity, because it comes around. There isn’t any way I would be here were it not for the generosity of others who have been there for me. I owe it to all the people in my life. I wouldn’t know where to begin. It’s a population of people that I owe things to. Listen to the full episode whereever you download podcasts and here: variety.com/2026/film/awards…