Taking the lead role on a TV adaptation of Halo is no easy task. Anyone who's played a Halo game knows how incredibly deep the lore of the franchise goes. There's a lot to know and if you're playing as pivotal a character as Master Chief, that's a lot of research to dig through. Luckily, for Pablo Schreiber, there was a boot camp for that.

The actor stars as Master Chief/John-117 in the upcoming Paramount+ series and admits that prior to his casting, he wasn't all that familiar with Halo.

"I was familiar with it but more from a peripheral standpoint," he told GameSpot. "I didn't grow up with TV or with video games, so my only access to video games was as a teenager I would go to friend's houses and play after school. I played Halo a few times but had never played the campaign or the story version. I only played [multiplayer]."