It’s finally happened. After years now of journalists putting Pedro Pascal in increasingly humiliating situations in which he’s forced to play along with the internet’s crush on him, the ‘Mandalorian’ and ‘The Last of Us‘ star has, at long last, said that enough is enough.
Pedro Pascal is not your daddy.
On the red carpet premiere for The Mandalorian, Access Hollywood yearned for virality once again by asking Pascal to “read to camera” a number of “thirst tweets” they had found on Twitter. For the unfamiliar, these are posts in which people talk about the attraction they have for a person in the most vulgar way possible.
“I would love if you could read a few thirst tweets that the internet has for you. If you could read them to camera,” the journalist says as she hands the phone to Pascal.
Pascal paused for a solid 30 seconds before finally answering with a smile: “No.”
He says so playfully and politely, following it with a jokingly scolding “dirty, dirty!” and a profuse thank you, but this is a sign that Pascal is finally ready to do what he should have done long ago–stop playing along with this gross and degrading behavior.
The 47-year-old Chilean-American is currently the hottest actor in the world, starring in two record-breaking series at the same time, honing his craft like never before and proving to be one of the most exceptional talents in Hollywood.
And yet, all anyone seems to want to ask him is about the attraction people have for him, and the penchant that people have for fetishizing him as “daddy”.
A brief history of journalists asking Pedro Pascal the same question
This has gotten much worse in the last year, with Vanity Fair asking about it 10 months ago during a lie detector test, forcing Pascal to address the “daddy” issue.
“Daddy is a state of mind, you know what I’m saying? I’m your daddy,” he said in that interview.
Last month, ET interviewed him, asking him basically the same question, asking about whether he knows he is the internet’s ‘Daddy’
“I’m your cool slutty daddy,” he repeated after reading a tweet saying the same thing.
He even did a sketch about it on SNL.
Pascal then played along with Graham Norton.
Now, it’s turned into every journalist asking him the same question, and he’s clearly losing his patience with it.
At the same event as the Access Hollywood shut-down, Extra asked him the exact same thing.
Finally, with Access Hollywood, he finally used the word he’s been searching for: “No.”
Hopefully this is the last time it happens. But, entertainment journalists being the unimaginative beasts that they are, it will not be. He will likely continue to be asked about this for decades to come. But I pray that this is not the case, because Pascal is an excellent actor, who deserves better than this debasing garbage.
With hit after hit, and entertaining, committed performances even in films that no one seems to like such as Wonder Woman 1984, this man has given us so much. Please treat him with the respect he deserves, and keep your inappropriate thoughts to yourself.
Anyways, watch The Mandalorian on Disney+ Arabia.