Pablo Schreiber has a ‘sense of responsibility’ as star of ‘Halo’ TV show

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‘The Mandalorian’ has certainly done well in grabbing an audience [and] we hope for the same.”“Halo,” based on the video game franchise of the same name, premieres Thursday (March 24) on Paramount+.

It’s a futuristic sci-fi epic, set in the year 2552, where humans have a conflict with an alien threat known as the Covenant.

Master Chief (Schreiber) is a genetically engineered super-soldier known as one of the government’s “Spartans.” When Kwan (Yerin Ha), a girl on the planet of Madrigal, survives an attack, she becomes an unlikely companion for Master Chief, as he begins to question his mission and himself. “Halo” has already been renewed for a second season ahead of its series premiere.“I had a relationship to [the game] but it was a peripheral one, until I got cast and started the process of researching for it,” said Schreiber (“Orange Is the New Black”), who’s also half-brothers with “Ray Donovan” star Liev Schreiber.“I had played the game a handful of times at friends’ houses after school, but I didn’t grow up with TV or video games.

So, it really was that high school period … that I had interaction with it. I also hadn’t played it as a story, so I had no idea about all of this mythology that had been established.