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He continues to quietly support socialist movements throughout Latin America, endorsing Chilean candidate Gabriel Boric for president in 2021. In fact, Pascal is related to Chile’s socialist president, Salvador Allende. They worked tirelessly to topple the dictatorial rule of Augusto Pinochet. Born and raised in Chile, Pascal’s family entrenched themselves in far-left revolutionary movements. Pascal himself is no stranger to loss, political revolution, or moral decay. Not only does Pascal understand how to illustrate this inner turmoil with a raised eyebrow or a tortured glance.

Seeing that Pascal already stars in Disney’s “The Mandalorian,” in which he plays a similarly gruff character tasked with transporting precious cargo, his performance as Joel may have seemed redundant to some, to the point that Pascal actually had to ask Disney for their permission to star in the HBO adaptation. Pascal may seem like an odd choice, but he’s the only man for the jobĭepending on how you look at it, Pascal is either the only actor who could play Joel or the last actor who should. However, it’s a move that paid off thanks to the power of Pascal’s performance.

It was a risky move by HBO to announce the show with the assumption that fans had already approved of Pascal as Joel’s live-action rendering. In the case of HBO’s adaptation, getting audiences to accept the chimerical nature of Joel’s character as performed by Pedro Pascal wasn’t a guarantee. Joel and Ellie were already an iconic duo, so teasing Joel’s return made sense. However, the first trailer for “The Last of Us Part II” worked specifically because of the pre-existing knowledge fans had of not just the world, but the characters living in it.

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