The Year of Actor Pedro Pascal

Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Lemonada Media

Society & Culture, Film Interviews, Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

For the long weekend, we return to one of our favorite talks with actor Pedro Pascal! At the top, we discuss his role in The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (5:02), working with childhood idol Nicolas Cage (6:50), why his parents left Chile (11:40), the John Hughes classic his dad wouldn’t let him watch (17:00), and the Tony Kushner play (20:21) that inspired him to give acting a go in New York City (25:07).

On the back-half, Pedro reflects on his first jobs on screen (27:52), the story of his mother’s passing (29:50), the friends who kept him afloat (36:20) as he built a career in theater (36:48), redefining childhood dreams in adulthood (42:34), and what really matters to him at age 47 (47:37).

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0:00.0	Pushkin. This is talk easy. I'm Santa by actor Pedro Pascal. I taped this conversation with Pedro last summer
0:47.5	around the release of a film called The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
0:52.1	starring Nicholas Cage.
0:55.0	He now has a new hit TV series, The Last of Us, currently available to stream on HBO.
1:02.8	New episodes of that program air every Sunday.
1:06.4	If you are like most people in America or around the world, you have probably been watching
1:11.6	this show. I am just starting to catch up now. It is fantastic
1:16.8	You may have also seen Pascal hosting S&L earlier this month
1:21.2	If I had any say in the matter and I want to be clear I obviously don't but if I did I would immediately
1:28.2	green light a franchise around the protective mother character he played.
1:34.0	If you haven't seen it, just Google protective mother
1:37.4	S&L sketch. It's one of my favorite pieces that they've done in recent memory.
1:42.4	There's one more thing, of course.
1:44.0	Come the top of March, I think it's March 1st,
1:47.0	Pedro will reprise the titular role
1:50.0	and the Mandalorian, co-created by John Fabro.
1:53.7	You can stream new episodes of the Mandalorian on Disney Plus beginning March 1st.
1:59.6	With that, a bit of housekeeping before we dive in the Pedro.
2:04.3	Next week on Friday, February 24th,
2:07.2	we'll be taping a live episode of Talk Easy
2:10.4	as part of On Airfest in Brooklyn, New York, sitting with the brilliant novelist
2:15.2	Menjin Lee. She's the author of books like Free Food for Millionaires and
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