Halo series star Pablo Schreiber opens up about playing the iconic Master Chief

Pablo Schreiber who will be bringing the Master Cheif to life in the upcoming live-action adaption of the popular video game franchise Halo, the series will stream on Paramount+ in March of this year.

The actor in a recent interview with Comicbook.com talked about his experience working on the show and the need for the Spartan super solider to take off his helmet and reveal his face.

For those who don't know John Spartan 117 aka the Master Chief does not take off his helmet or reveal his face in the video games. This is done to make the game more immersive but Schreiber says that it won't work on the show as it might alienate audiences.

It has been a recent trend of sorts with shows where the characters take off their helmet for the first time and reveal their face to the audience. The most recent example being The Mandalorian where the mercenary finally reveals his face in order to save the young Grogo.

And the character of Boba Fett taking of his helmet in The Book of Boba Fett. Now it seems that the Master Chief will be be doing the same for the first time and Pablo Schreiber explains why.

Pablo Schreiber known for his role in the hit series American Gods spoke about his upcoming role and the need to take for the character to reveal his face 

"No, it's not nerve-wracking. It feels really exciting, It's tailoring the entertainment for the medium, right? Halo is a first-person shooter game, and so Chief has always been kept as a symbol, a very vague character that you don't really get to know because you're meant to be him. You put yourself in that position and fill out all the details of the personality with your own," he says.

Adding to it he further said, "We're making a TV show and in order to have an audience connect with the character over the course of a long-term TV show, there's no way you can pull an audience through that without getting to know the character, without relating to the character, without empathizing with the character. And that feels virtually impossible to do with a helmet on all the time."

He went on to add -

"The only rule about not taking your helmet off [for Spartans] is the one about Chief not taking his off because you're meant to believe you're him, So this is a new form of entertainment, it's a new medium. It's a chance for people who have played as Chief for so long to put the controller down, sit back on the couch, enjoy the experience of learning about the Chief in a way that you have never done before. And I think it's an opportunity for all of us to get to know him in a better way."

Halo is set in the 26th century and follows Master Cheif a super-soldier created and trained to fight an alien race called the Covenant who wants to wipe out humanity and rule the galaxy.

The show was created by Kyle Killen and Steven Kane and stars Pablo Schreiber, Natascha McElhone, Yerin Ha, Charlie Murphy, Jen Taylor, Shabana Azmi , and Bokeem Woodbine.

Halo will stream on Paramount+ on March 24, 2022.