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"Game of Thrones": How the Franchise Will Continue to Live On
"Daddy is simply a authorities of mind, you cognize what I'm saying? I'm your Daddy."
Thanks to that infamous skit helium did for Vanity Fair, we each know Pedro Pascal is good alert of the interaction he's had connected viewers ever since helium made his memorable and magnetic debut connected Game of Thrones in 2014. if the ever-populated TV scenery is Los Angeles astatine the tallness of summertime is simply a desert, the 47-year-old histrion is simply a tall, charismatic portion of water. And thirsty audiences are going to beryllium well-hydrated successful 2023, acknowledgment to HBO's dystopian play The Last of Us, which premiered earlier this period and is already a hit, and the highly anticipated play 3 premiere of Disney+'s The Mandalorian on March 1. Double the Pedro, treble the handsome, treble the fun.
Because we've been talented with an abundance of Pedro connected our tiny screens this year, we decided to look backmost connected the Wonder Woman 1984 star's biggest TV roles to fertile which 1 is his hottest.
So, gird your loins and hole for a ocular feast arsenic we painstakingly complaint Pedro's TV appearances. It's a hard job, but idiosyncratic had to bash it. (Note: We lone included his recurring and regular roles successful this precise technological and superior thought experiment. But don't fto that marque you deliberation we've ever forgotten astir his tiny but adorable infinitesimal connected Buffy the Vampire Slayer successful 1999!)
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Nathan Landry, The Good Wife
Ugh, what a handsome weasel this arrogant adjunct territory lawyer was! Alas, we bash similar our Pedro Pascal with immoderate facial hair, truthful we indispensable entity to his clean-shaven recurring relation connected the CBS ineligible drama.
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Agent Marcus Pike, The Mentalist
"There I was similar benignant of the bittersweet emotion interest," Pedro recalled successful a interrogation with GQ. "That was the archetypal clip I got to beryllium like, 'Let's bring idiosyncratic successful truthful that radical commencement freaking retired that these 2 mightiness not extremity up together.'"
While his seven-episode arc connected the CBS procedural ended aft his quality moved to Washington D.C., we hated to see Pedro spell but we loved to ticker him leave.
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Mando, The Mandalorian
It takes a charismatic AF antheral to marque america swoon for a perennially helmeted bounty hunter. So, of course, the Stars Wars squad sought Pedro, an histrion with much charm than a container of magically delicious Lucky Charms, to go Grogu's reluctant begetter figure.
However, we indispensable sound Mando down successful the ranking, simply due to the fact that nary 1 is truly definite however often it is really Pedro successful the armor. Sorry, but this is the way!
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Javier Peña, Narcos
Pedro's archetypal bid regular role—playing the real-life Drug Enforcement Administration cause who investigated Pablo Escobar and the Medellín Cartel—was, naturally, each astir his 'stache.
While the histrion told GQ helium felt helium "looked similar a dork" decked retired successful the fashions from the '80s, the photograph of him rocking the aviator sunglasses that lives rent-free successful the favorites medium connected our telephone begs to differ!
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Joel Miller astatine 36, The Last of Us
While we didn't walk long with the azygous begetter successful 2003 earlier a encephalon fungus turned astir of the world's colonisation into zombies, we are grateful for the clip we did stock with the day boy.
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Din Djarin, The Mandalorian
Why yes, yes we did determine to cheat and abstracted Mando and Din, conscionable truthful we could person different excuse to look astatine his face. Come on, who tin blasted Grogu for becoming truthful attached?!
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Joel Miller astatine 56, The Last of Us
Who knew conscionable a fewer grey streaks would instrumentality Pedro from daddy to zaddy successful HBO's post-apocalyptic drama? We are truthful atrocious and that is the past you volition perceive from us.
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Oberyn Martell, Game of Thrones
Did you truly deliberation we weren't going to prime the Red Viper arsenic Pedro's hottest role? You cognize nothing!
From the infinitesimal the Dornish Prince stepped into King's Landing successful the HBO hit's play 4 premiere, helium brought a frenetic, fearless and caller energy, with Pedro describing Oberyn arsenic "definitely punk rock" successful an interrogation with TVLine astatine the time. "He's like, 'Live beingness to the fullest, suck the marrow, play hard, emotion hard, hatred hard."
Fans instantly became attached to the vengeance-seeking smooth-talker and the seven-episode stint "changed my life," Pedro told GQ. Yeah, ours, too.
The Last of Us airs Sundays astatine 9 p.m. connected HBO.
