Master Chief actor doubles down on decision to remove his character's helmet in Halo TV show: "There’s no point discussing it"

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Master Chief actor Pablo Schreiber has doubled down on one of the Halo TV show's most controversial d🐭ecisions – and🍷 yes, it does involve his helmet.

"People who don’t feel the helmet was necessary to come off, they’re at such an early conception of what the show could be," Schreiber tells 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:SFX magazine in the new issue, which features 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Halo season 2 on the cover. 

"In order to examine the discrepancy between these two versions of the character [Chief♛ and Joh♔n-117], you can’t tell that story without taking the helmet off. If you don’t agree with the helmet coming off in the show, you don’t like our show. So, there’s no point discussing it."

The decision certainly proved♚ to be a major talking point when Master Chief first removed his helmet in the season 1 pilot. The character doesn't reveal his face at all in the Halo video game franchise, despite there being six mainline entries. 

"We’re going to tell a story about the man inside the helmet," showrunner Steven Kane 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:previously told SFX when season 1 was released. "If you read a book about the Master Chief, and there are many, they talk about 𓄧him so you’re getting inside his head in a way that you wouldn’t get from playing the game. If you can give people that privileged point of view, why can&rꦜsquo;t you let them see his face?" 

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