We thought it couldn’t get worse — but it did.
It’s bad enough that Pedro Pascal knows he’s a a heartthrob, but now we — as a society — have evolved from calling him “daddy” to swooning over his accent and now (our final form) drooling over the pronunciation of his name, which a lot of people get wrong. The Mandalorian star has been an object of affection for years, perhaps starting back in 2017 when he joined Taron Egerton and Colin Firth for Kingsman: The Golden Circle as Jack Daniels aka Agent Whiskey. Ever since, wherever Pascal ventures, he leaves a string of broken hearts behind. The Chilean-American actor is reigniting fans’ love for him as he embodies Joel in HBO’s The Last of Us adaptation, and continues to be the talk of the town now that Mandalorian‘s third season is officially premiered.
Like we said, before it was his dashing good looks, then it was his South American accent, and now it’s the way he enunciates his own name — which isn’t Pedro Pascal, for anyone wondering. In actuality, Pascal’s full name is José Pedro Balmaceda Pascal, shortened to Pedro Pascal as a stage name. Almost everyone butchers Pedro Pascal alone, so we can’t expect most people to nail the rest of it, not without the crutch of a South American lilt. Many have tried, but few have succeeded.
We haven’t quite had our fill of Pascal just yet. There’s still two episodes left before The Last of Us closes out its first season, and a whole lot more Mandalorian yet to come. In that time, we’re almost certain the internet will find something else to fawn over when it comes to Pascal, who’s still got a long and prosperous career ahead of him at the ripe young age of 47. In fact, he’s already got several projects on the horizon, in the form of drama film Freaky Tales and two more undisclosed roles in The Uninvited and Tropico, so keep an eye on the dazzling actor.
