Halo’s Pablo Schreiber on Playing Master Chief and Filming Season 2 This Summer

With the first episode of the Halo series arriving Thursday on Paramount , I recently got to speak with Pablo Schreiber about playing Master Chief in the highly anticipated series. Based on the video game franchise of the same name, Halo follows a 26th century showdown between humanity and an intergalactic threat known as the Covenant. In an effort to win the war, Dr. Halsey (Natascha McElhone) creates genetically enhanced super-soldiers named the Spartans to combat the alien force. The series follows Master Chief Spartan John-117 (Schreiber), the commander of a Spartan unit. Although drawing heavily from the video game’s stories, the show takes place in its own timeline. During the interview, Schreiber talked about what the series is about, how the show explores who Master Chief is and will “investigate aspects of his humanity and what makes him tick,” what it was like finding out he landed the lead role, and why they sometimes had three Master Chiefs on different sets while they were filming. In addi