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Game for it

Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey starred in different seasons of Game of Thrones and never met. But their characters had something in common. Both were crushed to death by giant creatures.

“My head was well squished by the time you showed up,” Pascal says to Ramsey as the jovial pair share a Zoom press call about their new show.

Still, even if both made grim exits, boosted their careers. For Chilean-American Pascal, that meant lead roles in and the title role in the hit Star Wars spin-off . For English teenager Ramsey, there have been more period productions like and the lead in the charming medieval comedy feature playing a character even more precocious than ’ Lyanna Mormont.

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