” series for Disney Plus that earned 15 Emmy nominations, including best drama, in its first season. And then on Dec. 25 — COVID-19 depending — he’ll play the slippery comic book villain Maxwell Lord opposite Gal Gadot, Chris Pine and Kristen Wiig in “The roles are at once wildly divergent and the best showcase yet for Pascal’s elastic talents.
“He feels very much like a classic movie star in his charm and his delivery,” says Favreau. “And he’s somebody who takes his craft very seriously.” Favreau felt Pascal had the presence and skill essential to deliver a character — named Din Djarin, but mostly called Mando — who spends virtually every second of his time on screen wearing a helmet, part of the sacrosanct creed of the Mandalorian order.
“If there were more than just a couple of pages of a one-on-one scene, I did feel uneasy about not, in some instances, being able to totally author that,” he says. “But it was so easy in such a sort of practical and unexciting way for it to be up to them. When you’re dealing with a franchise as large as this, you are such a passenger to however they’re going to carve it out. It’s just so specific. It’s ‘Star Wars.'” 26.
Even if Pascal couldn’t always be inside Mando’s body, he never left the character’s head, always aware of how this orphaned bounty hunter who caroms from planet to planet would look askance at anything that felt too good to be true. Besides, he loved his life in San Antonio. His father took him and his sister to Spurs basketball games during the week if their homework was done. He hoodwinked his mother into letting him see “Poltergeist” at the local multiplex. He watched just about anything on cable; the HBO special of Whoopi Goldberg’s one-woman Broadway show knocked him flat. He remembers seeing Henry Thomas in “E.T.
It was a desperately lean time for Pascal. He booked an occasional “Law & Order” episode, but mostly he was pounding the pavement along with his other New York theater friends — like Oscar Isaac, who met Pascal doing an Off Broadway play. They became fast, lifelong friends, bonding over their shared passions and frustrations as actors.
Pascal had actually shot a TV pilot with Jenkins that wasn’t picked up, made right before his life-changing run on “Game of Thrones” aired. “I got to work with Patty for three days or something and then thought I’d never see her again,” he says. “I didn’t even know she remembered me from that.”
Pedro deserves this so much.
Pedro Pascal is an incredible actor. Even through a helmet and body armor, we always know how Din is feeling. And when he takes the helmet off? Oh man.
Pedro is such a beautiful man 💖
Pedro Pascal is a legend. Happy he’s the Mandalorian & he has always been an phenomenal actor giving such amazing performances.!
Star in a SW feature film as Mando 🙏 Mandolarian
Would be nice if they let some of that charm shine through. Why cast a guy who talks non stop and is really funny to be the guy who doesn't say much and doesn't joke around?
Couldn't imagine anyone else playing this role, pedro is perfect
Him and Favreau might end up being one of the best things to ever happen to the Star Wars franchise
Ironic for him to call anything amateurish when the only season D&D didn’t have a book to go off of they 100% botched and destroyed the legacy of the whole show.
The performance is the point. He wasn't auditioning for the DP slot for fuck's sake
Says the guy that botched an easy final season. A rando off the street would have known better
The whole ending of GOT was very amateurish. Including the performance.
sleemo Literally the reason he looked so done with JJ Abrams' shitshow of a movie during its press interviews
And then.... they turned his character from ultra heroic pilot in Star Wars to spice runner... smh.
God this man just....does things to me😍
Ever heard of Darth Vader? Variety, do some research.
Was James Earl Jones in the Darth Vader suit?
sleemo GraceRandolph Here is your moment
This news is only about a year old
We already knew this.
When you watch Season 2 and think ' Something suss about this Mando... '
Wow you mean RDJ actually flew around in a suit of armor! ;-)
I thought that was basically every scene Pedro Pascal was under the mask.
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