Celebrity Roundup: Peter Dinklage goes corporate, Pedro Pascal goes lawman

Game of Thrones is between seasons right now, but the actors we’ve grown to know and love remain hard at work. Pedro Pascal, for example, is carving out his post-Oberyn Martell career with a co-starring role in a 10-episode Netflix drama called Narcos. He’ll play real-life Mexican DEA agent Javier Peña, who attempted to bring Columbian drug lord Pablo Escobar (Wagner Moura) to justice during the height of his power as leader of the Medellín Cartel. Here’s the official trailer.

Unfortunately, the trailer doesn’t give Pascal nearly as much attention as it gives Boyd Holbrook, who’ll play Peña’s partner on the series. Still, it’s good to see Pascal in something with hit potential. Narcos will be available to watch on Netflix come August 28th.

In other, more ridiculous news, Peter Dinklage is narrating a number of overly serious car commercials for Chrysler. Behold:

“Kerouac wrote, ‘What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? It’s the too-huge world vaulting us, and it’s goodbye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.”‘ Therefore, buy Chrysler.

There’s a whole series of these available on Chrysler’s YouTube page. Dinklage also quotes the likes of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Herman Melville, Marcel Proust, and William Wordsworth to extol the virtues of various automobiles. A passage from the works of J.K. Rowling has yet to show up.

Also, this seems like a good place to mention that Dinklage will soon be appearing alongside Adam Sandler in Pixels, that ridiculous-looking movie where videogames attack planet Earth. I hope he’s having fun.

One last addition to the roundup, this week, is Charles Dance seems to have landed the lead in an all new television series…at least his voice has. SyFy is turning legendary author Arthur C. Clarke’s science fiction novel, Childhood’s End (published in 1953), into a series that will debut in December.

The SyFy Channel has really been stepping up lately, with some great shows. 12 Monkeys and Helix (gods rest its soul) are fantastic, as well as Dominion. I surely hope that Childhood’s End translates well into today’s culture and Mr. Dance has as much success as he had on Game of Thrones.

H/T The Huffington Post, The Detroit News

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