Pedro Pascal capped off the year last fall co-starring in Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II and it seems like he hasn’t been out of the spotlight ever since. The actor has appeared on the small screen for the second season of HBO’s acclaimed series The Last of Us and he’s been building hype for his turn as Reed Richards, aka Mr. Fantastic, in The Fantastic Four: First Steps. Not to mention building hype for his continued Marvel appearances in Avengers: Doomsday. However, Pascal was also previously in the romantic dramedy The Materialists and can also be seen in Ari Aster’s pandemic film Eddington.
The Materialists, Eddington and The Fantastic Four: First Steps all open in a six-week period and IndieWire reports on Pascal’s talk with the Associated Press about this incredible run of projects. Pascal admits he’s enjoying it all as he explains,
It is the best time of my life. Just, I don’t know… look around, and it’s an incredible reflection of… what I’m experiencing right now. I’m having a really amazing time.”
While he’s starred as the villain in a Wonder Woman movie prior, Pascal realizes the weight of being the patriarch of the Fantastic Four, “I think that sometimes the outside will find you, no matter how much you try to protect yourself from it. It just comes with the territory. I think maybe my nerves were bigger than they usually are, and so I think I just was a little bit more sensitive to the love that people have for stories like this, because I know that they wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for the love that people have for these characters.”
Let’s not forget he makes his return to the Star Wars universe in The Mandalorian and Grogu. Pascal is putting it on himself to deliver for his part in the franchises that he has become a part of, “I think that it’s just very important for me that expectations be fulfilled… but I also know that the only way to do that is to give it all my focus and all my heart and my body and my soul and… that was the best I could do.”
