Years before the Chilean-American actor, whose latest roles in HBO’s hugely successful apocalyptic series The Last of Us and the Star Wars spin-off series The Mandalorian shot him to worldwide fame, he was booking small TV roles under his birth name, Pedro Balmaceda.
It was after the sudden death of his mother by suicide in 2000 – when he was 24 years old –that he decided to go by her maiden name Pascal professionally, to honour her, revealed the now 48-year-old actor in a new interview with Esquire.
“And also, because Americans had such a hard time pronouncing Balmaceda,” he said in an earlier interview with Variety. “It was exhausting.”
Elsewhere in the interview with Esquire, Pascal’s close friend, fellow actor Sarah Paulson, opened up about his difficulty in landing roles following his return to New York after his mother’s death.
“He’s talked about this publicly,” the American Horror Story star said, “but there were times when I would give him my per diem from a job I was working on so that he could have money to feed himself.”
It was about 14 years later, in 2014, when he secured his breakthrough role as Oberyn Martell in Game of Thrones that he then found continuous success.
Pascal most recently returned as the title character on the third season of Disney Plus’s The Mandalorian.
It was after the sudden death of his mother by suicide in 2000 – when he was 24 years old – that he decided to go by her maiden name Pascal professionally, to honour her, revealed the now 48-year-old actor in a new interview with Esquire.
After the death of his mother by suicide in 2000 when he was 24, he decided to use her maiden name Pascal professionally to honour her, the 48-year-old said in an interview with Esquire. “And also, because Americans had such a hard time pronouncing Balmaceda,” he said in an earlier interview with Variety.
Pedro Pascal has never been married, but he has been romantically linked to a few of his co-stars over the years. Learn more about 'The Last Of Us' star's love life here.
Pascal said he believed he's earned the "daddy" honorific because he's played several father figures on screen. “(The daddy thing) seems a little role-related, I think. There was a period where the Mandalorian is very daddy to baby Grogu. Joel is very daddy to Ellie.
While many speculated about Pascal and Tunney's connection, it's more likely she was just a friend rather than a girlfriend, because Tunney has been engaged to interior designer Nick Marmet since 2012.
The Last of Us star, 47, attended the 95th Academy Awards on Sunday night as a presenter (he introduced Best Animated Short and Best Documentary Short with Elizabeth Olsen), but he was also there for his sister.
Despite their characters being so far apart in time and space in that fictional universe, though, the pair are extremely close friends in real life. Their careers have brought them to very different places, over the years, but to similar destinations.
As for what actually happened to Pedro's arm, he told reporters at the Golden Globes last week that he simply "fell." Here's to hoping Pedro's arm shoulder feels better soon (and resolves this clearly acute beef with Kieran Culkin).
At the beginning of his professional acting career, he went by the name Alexander in order to avoid being typecast. Celebrating his unique identity has framed who he is as an actor in Hollywood.
In Narcos, Pascal portrays Javier Peña, a character based on a real-life DEA agent who investigated Pablo Escobar and the Medellín Cartel. (Peña even worked as a consultant on the Netflix series.) The first two seasons of the show depict the rise and fall of the infamous drug lord.
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