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Tony Gilroy says he was ready to scrap “Behemoth!” after losing Oscar Isaac to “a traffic jam between ‘Frankenstein’ and awards,” but a three-hour lunch with Pedro Pascal convinced him he’d found his new leading man: “I was rehearsing in the car the speech I was going to give my people: ‘Hey, we really tried hard, but we’re not going to do this movie now.’ 10 minutes into [the meeting], I’m like, ‘Oh my God, can he be this perfect? There must be something wrong with him. What’s wrong?’ We had a three-hour meeting that was more of a prenup than a meeting because after about half an hour, we’d decided, ‘OK, we like you, you like us, nobody’s selling anything.’ That’s how meetings should be. He said, ‘I’ll start tomorrow.’ The next day, he had a cello.” variety.com/2026/film/awards…