This summer, in Rooms Dark, Pedro Pascal is available in three seasons: good single version but too rationalist (Matters by Celine Song, in theaters on July 2), mayor of a city in New Mexico (Eddington D’Ari Aster, July 16) or molded superhero in a blue combi (The Fantastic Four: First StepsJuly 23).
The 50 -year -old popularity rating did not explode yesterday. For several months, the “Mania Pascal” has been affirming in our series reports and in the timeline of our social networks: Videos and Edicts Tiktok transmitted to Gogo by fans who declare their love for man with a mustache.
The media also hugged. In June, Vanity Fair Us dedicated its cover to the adoration of the actor, titling “everyone wants a piece of Pascal” (“Everyone wants a piece of Pedro Pascal”) when France Inter speaks of the “birth of Pedropascism.”
From “Buffy” A “Games of Thrones”
The American-Chilean race began late, at the edge of the forties. He was born in Santiago in Chile, but his parents fled the dictatorship. His mother is the cousin of Salvador Allende’s nephew, the leader of the left -wing revolutionary movement overthrown by Pinochet in 1973. He arrived very young in the United States, grew in Texas and California.
But if Pedro Pascal knew very early that he wanted to become an actor, he took two decades to make his way. After artistic studies, this son of a fertility specialized doctor and a child psychiatrist chained secondary roles on the boards and on the small screen. For your credit, a brief appearance in Buffy against vampiresand many small roles in the police series. He joked in 2023, in his SNL opening monologue.
“At the beginning of my career, I played small roles in all police series. I even played two different characters in ‘New York, special unit’.”
Therefore, (briefly) we cross it in the early 2000s in New York Blues Police, New York, Criminal Section, New York, Judicial Police, FBI – disappeared, either Homeland. And in some more recurring roles in The good wife EITHER Brothers and sisters. At the same time, he officiates as a server in restaurants to pay their careers and medical care.
It is his role as Oberyn Martell in the fourth season of game of Thrones who drives him at the head of the stage in 2014. The character has 7 episodes, which is a beautiful longevity for game of ThronesAnd especially offers one of the most spectacular deaths of the series, which has thousands.
At 42, he became the agent of the DEA Javier Peña in NarcosThen he dares some action roles in box office successes Kingsman: The Golden Circle, Equalizer 2 or in the superhero movie Wonder Woman 1984.
But it is the small screen again, which offers the roles that will make it very popular. In 2019, he was the hero Casco and not a talkative of The Mandalorian In Disney+. In 2023, he acams Joel Miller, the father, the tender and sad hero, in the successful adaptation of the video game The last of us And it is involved in the 100 best of the most influential people in the world of time. Acclaimed by criticism and the public, the HBO series captivates almost 32 million viewers per episode in May 2023. The “Pedro Pascal Mania” is underway.
The man investigates and interferes in the author’s cinema, playing with Pedro Almodóvar, Ethan Coen and, therefore, more recently in Celine Song and Ari Aster. Without forgetting their biggest public scores in Gladiator 2, Freaky Tales, The Wild Robot EITHER The fantastic four.
A “sexual symbol” that moves away from codes
But beyond the enviable filmography of the actor, the “Pedro Pascal Mania” is also based on her athletic physique: square shoulders and cultivated biocers, highlighted in Gladiator – And his sweet charisma. Already in 2017, Los Angeles Times even erected it in the “sexual symbol” of the time.
His style on red, daring and extravagant carpets also plays for many: blouse with purple Lavallière, imposing glasses, sleeveless shirt, neckline, shorts, thigh boards and pass, the actor is not afraid to get away from the codes.
In the networks, he is nicknamed “Daddy” or “Zaddy”, in reference to mature men (understands: 40 years) whose attitude is very attractive.
“Not only can it be a physical attraction …”, advances on Instagram Camilo Aguilera, psychologist, professor at the Autonomous University of Chile. “It goes far beyond the fact that he is the ‘father of the Internet of the moment.”
For the psychologist, the Pascalian charm is found in its special masculinity: “warm but firm, protective but not dominant, vulnerable but always strong.”
A new masculinity
Like a Timothy chamet, in a less gray and conical version, the fifties incorporate a new facet of male after#metao. In Vanity Fair, Spike Jonze, who directed the actor in an Apple announcement is categorical: “I think that is what we want to be in terms of masculinity.”
“More than a man, a movement: why everyone loves Pedro Pascal”, thus entitled El Pais on July 19, who dedicated a long article to the embodiment of the Pedro Pascal phenomenon of a new “model of masculinity.”
A phlegm doubled with infallible kindness. Your dogma? “Be yourself, treat people with respect, respect yourself,” he said at the press conference of Fantastic four In Paris.
The New York summed up the thing in a drawing: a shrink in his cabinet trying to reassure his patient, lying on the couch: “It is nothing strange, many people say that their faith in humanity rests completely on the kindness of Pedro Pascal.”
“It doesn’t matter who you are, he doesn’t change. He is complete with everyone and I think that’s why he is so dear,” said Vanessa Kirby, his playmate in The fantastic fourDuring this same press conference. Unless it is his “immense vulnerability” who explains it: “He does not have much armor, so he appears immediately and you trust him,” he said in Vanity Fair.
His progressive political positions also spoke a lot about the actor: support for refugees, the condemnation of “silence” about “Gaza genocide” during the last Cannes festival, the harsh criticism of the Trumpist reign or the defense of people LGBTQ+. Starting with her little sister, actress Lux Pascal, who was transgender in 2021. Certainly, the fifties are our time.
Source: BFM TV
