Shabana Azmi Says Paramount Plus Series ‘Halo’ Achieved Color Blind Casting
variety.comNaman Ramachandran Revered Indian actor Shabana Azmi, who plays the pivotal role of Admiral Margaret Parangosky in hugely anticipated mega-budget Paramount Plus series “Halo,” describes her experience on the show as “completely different.”The series is based on Microsoft’s iconic video game “Halo,” a sprawling science fiction epic that involves multiple warring factions and far-flung alien species.
Pablo Schreiber plays the central character Master Chief. Azmi’s Parangosky, second billed in the credits after Schreiber, has frequent interactions with Natascha McElhone’s Dr.
Catherine Halsey.“The interesting thing about Margaret is that she’s conflicted, because she is somebody who plays by the rules of the game.
She is somebody who is used to giving orders and having those orders obeyed. And here she’s all but manipulated by the scientists to break the rules, because she keeps [hearing] that this will be good for humanity and she does unscrupulous things,” Azmi told Variety. “Margaret becomes privy to that, in fact, has to actually agree to that, and that conflicted nature of that relationship forms the centrality of the character that I play.
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