Often mistaken for a sweet animal fable, Watership Down is actually a survival epic. In this novel—which has been turned into a classic animated film in 1978, and remade for Netflix in 2018—a group of rabbits flee the destruction of their warren and face brutality, authoritarianism and exile. It’s a story about resistance and community told with surprisingly political undertones. Pedro Pascal has spoken about how gruelling it was to read as a child, and how it left an emotional mark.
