Pedro Pascal Looks Back on "NYPD Blue"

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Pedro Pascal Made Up a Fake Satanic Language for his Goth Character on "NYPD Blue"
by Emlyn Travis
March 9, 2023


Pedro Pascal can speak multiple languages: English, Spanish, and, apparently, some kind of cursed devil speech he conjured for a role on "NYPD Blue".

The actor, who starred in a one episode arc as goth teen Shane "Dio" Morrissey in season 8, said that he completely made up the spooky, Latin-inspired gibberish that his character intensely utters during a scene in the crime drama.

"At one point, he has a pentagram on the inside of his palm that they made with like a black sharpie and I lick it and I make up some satanic language," Pascal recalled while eating some wings on Thursday's episode of Hot Ones. "I thought that it was supposed to be like, Latin, or something?"




When Pascal asked if there was any specific Latin that he should learn for the role, he said the crew simply encouraged him to "just make it up" as he saw fit.

"I was like, 'Oh, okay,'" he continued. "I licked the hand and then I turned slowly towards the camera going [ominous gibberish]. Some crazy s--- like that. On an episode of your ABC network television hit NYPD Blue. I made up the language."

Looking back, Pascal called Dio a "really, really unusually fun character" to play, noting that the role's fashion sense led him to don "all these fake piercings," too.

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