Blazing guns: behind the scenes.
Alamy
HALO
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PABLO SCHREIBER GREW up in a house with no TV and no video-game consoles. So, aside from dipping into hit sci-fi first-person-shooter Xbox series Halo while visiting friends as a teenager, he wasn’t deeply familiar with the game. Still, when he was offered the role of its alien-fanatic-battling protagonist — the genetically engineered “Spartan” super-soldier Master Chief/John-117 — for a long-gestating TV adaptation, he knew enough to know it was a big deal. Like, huge.