- 6 months ago
Pedro Pascal takes a walk down memory lane as he rewatches scenes from his classic works including 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer,' 'Game of Thrones,' 'Narcos,' 'The Mandalorian,' 'The Last Of Us,' 'The Materialists,' 'The Fantastic Four: First Steps,' 'Eddington' and more.
Read Pedro Pascal’s Vanity Fair cover story: https://vanityfair.visitlink.me/e9bszy
Pedro's Outfit
Coat: Umit Benan
Sweater: Umit Benan
T-Shirt: Calvin Klein
Trousers: Umit Benan
Belt: Tom Ford
Shoes: Maison Margiela
Director: Adam Lance Garcia
Director of Photography: Boya Dee
Editor: Cory Stevens
Talent: Pedro Pascal
Producer: Madison Coffey
Line Producer: Natasha Soto-Albors
Associate Producer: Zayna Allen
Production Manager: Andressa Pelachi
Production Coordinator: Elizabeth Hymes
Camera Operator: Louis Brennan
Gaffer: Jordan White
Audio Engineer: Dave Sohanpal
Production Assistant: Kolade Shashi
Set Designer: Katie Jessica
Post Production Supervisor: Christian Olguin
Supervising Editor: Erica DeLeo
Assistant Editor: Andy Morell
Read Pedro Pascal’s Vanity Fair cover story: https://vanityfair.visitlink.me/e9bszy
Pedro's Outfit
Coat: Umit Benan
Sweater: Umit Benan
T-Shirt: Calvin Klein
Trousers: Umit Benan
Belt: Tom Ford
Shoes: Maison Margiela
Director: Adam Lance Garcia
Director of Photography: Boya Dee
Editor: Cory Stevens
Talent: Pedro Pascal
Producer: Madison Coffey
Line Producer: Natasha Soto-Albors
Associate Producer: Zayna Allen
Production Manager: Andressa Pelachi
Production Coordinator: Elizabeth Hymes
Camera Operator: Louis Brennan
Gaffer: Jordan White
Audio Engineer: Dave Sohanpal
Production Assistant: Kolade Shashi
Set Designer: Katie Jessica
Post Production Supervisor: Christian Olguin
Supervising Editor: Erica DeLeo
Assistant Editor: Andy Morell
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00:00Every time you say Fantastic Four, you have to go Fantastic Four!
00:07Hello, I'm Pedro Pascal. I am here to watch some scenes from my career.
00:14I have to look at myself, and you have to watch it with me.
00:30Wow, sorry. No, I wasn't looking. Did you, uh, lose your way?
00:43Oh, no, no, I'm just going to Fisher Hall, which I know is on the Earth planet.
00:50Recently voted most pathetic, uh-huh. Well, I'm lost, and I have a map.
00:55This is one of the biggest jobs I ever got in my life. Everybody was dying to be on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
01:03So when I got season four premiere episode, I couldn't believe it.
01:08I just knew how badly everybody wanted to get on this show, so freshly out of school to get on it.
01:14I was like, well, I'm shooting to the top, and then I died after one scene.
01:20And we shot it on the UCLA campus. It was a night shoot.
01:23I was actually doing a play in Long Beach, and I had to miss the opening night.
01:29An understudy had to learn the part in just a couple of days and go on for me,
01:34because there was no way I could say no to doing this.
01:37Well, I'll look for you in sight.
01:39Yeah. We can help each other figure out what the hell they're talking about.
01:42Okay.
01:43Maybe even make it through the year.
01:45Good night.
01:47Good night.
01:48Sarah was amazing. She took very good care of me.
01:50She taught me, like, tricks of the trade in a way, because I was one of the first on-camera jobs that I'd ever gotten.
01:58Tricks on how to kind of find your mark that I have kept with me to this day.
02:04She invited me, and she had her friends with her, and they had ice cream.
02:08And she was like, do you want some ice cream?
02:09And I got to have ice cream with her and her girlfriends, and it made me feel really special.
02:14Eddie, hey!
02:15Wait up.
02:16God, I was worried that something had happened to you, and of course it has, because you're a vampire.
02:21I love seeing that scene because she's so good.
02:24There's just one I'm sorry that she has, and she has so much remorse that she had, like, left me behind, and I got turned, and she couldn't save me.
02:33No wonder people were so obsessed with the show. She's so good.
02:36I'm sorry.
02:38I'm not.
02:39One of my early deaths.
02:50More to come.
02:58Don't leave me alone in this world.
03:00Never.
03:08Yeah, that's all me.
03:10Oh, gosh.
03:11We were in Dubrovnik.
03:13It was blazing, blazing hot.
03:15I had a double named Liang, and he was like a wushu martial artist trained since the age, from the age of seven.
03:23I learned and practiced this fight more than I have any fight in my life, but the Jedi helicopter spins in the air? That's not me.
03:36But whenever you see my face, it is me.
03:38We shot this over a few days, actually.
03:40We shot this entire sequence in this, like, kind of amphitheater that was part of an abandoned hotel in Dubrovnik.
03:49There were rock formations that just hit right up against the Adriatic Sea.
03:53I remember going for swim, like, just jumping into the water at rap as a gift to finishing the day.
03:58Hapthor, gentle giant, so kind, poor guy had to stay in that outfit.
04:07He was incredible.
04:08He was an actor and a stuntman and a strongman.
04:11After this came out, he became number one strongman in the world.
04:17He, like Sarah Michelle Gellar, gave me tricks of the trade in terms of how to keep my energy up.
04:22Because if I got too fatigued, he's like, he had the person that was looking after him look after me, like,
04:27here, eat, have a bite of this, eat this banana now.
04:30People always looking after me.
04:32Take care of me.
04:33Oh, it's horrible.
04:38Those are my teeth flying.
04:40This is perverse.
04:42Yeah!
04:44That's disgusting.
04:46As violent as it looks, he was very gently pressing up against my eyes.
04:50You'd think that his entire weight would be on me with the costume.
04:53I didn't feel him at all.
04:54He held his weight.
04:55So we're really just acting there.
04:57The blood was really cool.
04:58They had tubing through his costume all the way to his thumbs.
05:02So they pumped fake blood.
05:04We shot in September, but it was still pretty hot.
05:06And the sun was just, like, blazing onto us all day.
05:09So this, like, cold blood was such a comfort.
05:12And then he smushes my face.
05:14Then I smashed your head in like this!
05:18Ew.
05:19That's not me.
05:20They had to kind of put, like, all of these different prosthetics
05:23and place them all over my face.
05:25And they were so cool to the touch.
05:27And then pumped blood that started to pool for this, like, wide shot from above.
05:31It was a game changer.
05:32It's the reason that I'm here now, I think.
05:35I don't think I know.
05:36I still can't believe it happened that David Benioff, Dan Weiss would take this chance.
05:44They could have had, I don't know, whoever they wanted.
05:47And that they actually paid attention to somebody who had a lot of, you know, regional theater, off-Broadway work
05:53and episodic television on their resume to step into this kind of a part in the height of their popularity.
06:00And to this day, I kind of am indebted to them for my career.
06:06One of my best friends, Sarah Paulson, her best friend, Amanda Peet, had a lot to do with it
06:10because they put my audition tape in front of them.
06:13And the experience that I had in doing it because I was such a fan of the show,
06:16it didn't even need to change anything for me for it not to be as special as it was
06:20because I was obsessed with the show and then getting to go and be with this ensemble
06:28and on those locations in a comfortable costume and in a really good role.
06:34I could barely fucking believe what was happening to me, to be honest with you.
06:37I was sitting in the throne room during Tyrion's trial and I had a view of everyone.
06:42and I was with all of these main players and it was just nuts.
07:01This is sort of like the introduction episode of my character
07:04and that's the incomparable beauty, Adri Arjona, who's as talented as she is beautiful.
07:11What's interesting is that I think that this is sort of a moment that kind of defines the entire character of Peña to me.
07:18And it was funny because the director didn't want me to pick her up and take her out of there.
07:23He found it a little too heroic.
07:25He may have been right, but I remember finding Peña the character in that scene and in that moment and with Adria to be honest with you.
07:36We just had one episode together and she plays a prostitute and we're having sex and I'm using her as an informant.
07:44She's brave enough to risk her life to get me information so that I can help get her out of there.
07:49All of that remorse, all of that like complex sort of morality.
07:57I don't know, just like ask for forgiveness, to be honest with you, in an instant of just simply, you know, like in just seconds.
08:07And that to me was sort of like the seed of the character throughout because nothing like that happens for me for the next three seasons.
08:14On the page, the character is like, you know, he's a DEA agent and they're not really offering up a lot of like nuance in terms of who the character is.
08:24So it was stuff like this and moments like this with other actors where I was kind of like finding him and understanding the tone of which I would approach playing him.
08:34She gonna be okay?
08:35Physically, yeah.
08:37Mentally, I haven't got a fucking clue.
08:39Left behind on purpose.
08:42Look, man, if we're going to be partners, I don't get left behind.
08:45I didn't come all the way down here, Penny, sit on the fucking sidelines.
08:48We were in Medellin and that was also a night that I understood it was like the visual experience of this show is going to be unlike anything anyone's seen.
08:56And this was my lucky follow up to Game of Thrones.
08:59This was the first job I got after Game of Thrones.
09:02I'm in all the way.
09:05Is that understood?
09:07I hope you know what that means.
09:19Boyd and I were in this together.
09:20Boyd was a leader for me in that like once we signed on, he got in touch with me.
09:25He wanted to meet up early.
09:27It was his idea to go to Quantico together and meet the real guys that we were playing and go through a training experience.
09:35I didn't want to do any of that shit.
09:37I was like afraid of all of it.
09:39I was very intimidated and I was just like I don't want to be around those guys.
09:43I didn't say that but that's how I felt secretly.
09:46It wasn't thrilling to me at all but it was a thrill, like it was incredibly thrilling to actually do it and to go and to be there and to be challenged in that way.
09:55And I turned out to be really, really good.
10:09I think that there's so much that goes into making this scene work.
10:24I think one is Ludwig Göransson's score, which is so perfect.
10:31The puppet work is unbelievable on Grogu.
10:35And the other interesting thing is that Jon Favreau is so collaborative that I remember having a conversation and there was like an episode.
10:45It was before this one and maybe he'd already had this planned already.
10:49But I remember talking to Jon and saying if there was a moment where I took off the helmet, I think we should really hold off and it should be because the child needs to see my face.
10:59Breaking the Creed completely just because I want to introduce my soul to Grogu.
11:09My idea was in a different spot and then Jon ended up making it a much, much, much, much better part of the series.
11:15But I really felt like heard and it was really special for it to become the moment that it became because it was somewhat of a collaborative thing.
11:29I knew it was Luke Skywalker. Who do you think you're talking to?
11:39Who do you think you're talking to?
11:47So I'm gonna give you one last chance.
11:51Tell me what happened with the fireflies.
11:53Oh, I don't want to see it.
11:56You don't want to see it?
11:57No.
11:58Really?
11:59Yeah. I could talk about it.
12:00This was one of the hardest and easiest, if that's impossible to understand, one of the hardest and easiest days of work I've ever had.
12:07We did this scene all day long.
12:09And I know that the context of things coming to an end as far as getting to play Joel alongside Ellie and then of course what the actual story is and the confession and the walls coming down completely in front of Ellie and finally saying the words that have been impossible for Joel to say.
12:25Telling the truth basically, recognizing the truth and recognizing that that truth will mean that Joel loses Ellie for good, but that he loves Ellie so much he can't lie to her.
12:43again.
12:58Making a cure.
13:02Would have killed you.
13:04Then I was supposed to die.
13:07That was my purpose.
13:08My life would have fucking mattered but you took that from me.
13:12This was towards the end of, like, all my shooting for The Last of Us.
13:17And Bella and I, it was just really fucking intense.
13:23And in that, like, it was an easy day of shooting.
13:27We were beautifully taken care of by Neil Druckmann, who was directing the episode.
13:32Bella and I are, like, linked souls.
13:36And this was the ultimate manifestation of that as scene partners on this porch.
13:41And so we took such good care of each other and just kind of, like, lived in the pain of it the entire day.
13:48I remember just being absolutely, like, emptied out by the end of that day.
13:56I would do it all over again.
14:01Because you're selfish.
14:04Because I love you.
14:11In a way you can't understand.
14:16The context of it was all in that I knew that it was ending, that my run on the show was coming to an end.
14:23And then you think about what the story is.
14:25It was just sort of like living the story out and having all of the nuance of what my relationship to my scene partner was in the experience of doing the show.
14:36And the idea of just hurting them.
14:39The idea of losing them.
14:41Those things just broke my heart.
14:43It was a very surreal feeling of having the safety of this relationship and that safety kind of, like, opening all of the channels in your heart.
14:59That's how it felt.
15:00I don't know what the cut is, which is why I don't want to see it.
15:02I don't want to see it.
15:32Dakota is so beautiful.
15:34I have a hard time with this movie because I'm just like, who are you to talk to a woman as beautiful as that?
15:40I look at her.
15:40All I'd ever shot in New York City were Law & Order episodes, which was really, really cool because you'd be, like, in the middle of Central Park on a night shoot, which was kind of, it's a nightmare if you describe it.
15:51But it's the middle of winter, freezing cold, and you're shooting in Central Park, and you're a corpse or something.
15:58And in this, it was different.
15:59It was sort of, like, all of the movies that I had built so many, like, dreams on were so New York City related.
16:07It drew me to go to school in New York, live the next 20 years of my life after I was 18 in New York City.
16:14And so this and the magic of, like, being in a movie that, because we were in a hotel in Central Park South.
16:23It was the spring.
16:24I remember they were kind of, like, going for walks, getting gray's papaya and a soft serve and sitting in the park with Dakota with my friend Coco, who did my beautiful hair.
16:35It was a very, very, very magical, magical time.
16:37I'm good friends with Dakota.
16:39She's an excellent scene partner.
16:41It's probably why the camera, why the shot will never turn away from her.
16:47What's it like?
16:49What's what like?
16:50Being a matchmaker.
16:52It's like working at the morgue or an insurance company.
16:57Starting materialist, I had gotten really injured, and I was coming out of a very bad shoulder injury and being in a sling and shooting The Last of Us.
17:07Because there was a strike that sort of really, really scrambled the schedule for a lot of people, and then a big injury for me that disrupted my life in a way that I hadn't expected.
17:20I'm a pretty fragile person, so I think that living with this kind of, like, pain, I got pretty sad.
17:28I was like, I don't feel ready to do this.
17:31I don't feel ready to play the catch of New York City.
17:34In that feeling, I realized that that was my through way into the soul of the character who had this big secret, the perfect access to what his vulnerability actually is.
17:47I don't know if it works, but that was the only way I knew how to get through it.
17:50Do you want a drink?
17:52Sure.
17:52What do you want?
17:54Coke and beer.
17:55I didn't have a choice because I couldn't sort of lie my way out of where I was at.
18:05I had a harder time doing that than I had doing the porch scene, for example, in The Last of Us.
18:11Because, you know, to cross the floor of, like, a wedding reception and to be the guy who everyone's looking at, you know, it was so impossible for me to believe that it could be convincing.
18:25And I knew that I couldn't sort of bury the insecurity or the invulnerability.
18:33I wish I could compartmentalize better in life, but I don't know how.
18:37And so it was great to realize that that was the only way to understand the character, was to not sort of, like, fake it.
18:53You're late.
18:55What do you mean?
18:55What do you mean, what do I mean?
18:56You're late for dinner.
18:58Yes, we are.
18:59You're late?
18:59I just said that.
19:01Are you pregnant?
19:02What?
19:04You're going to be the best mom in the world.
19:07And you are going to be the best dad.
19:08Just kidding.
19:09You are out of your depth.
19:10It's been a dream to join the MCU.
19:14And I think that to be invited into a family and to also just kind of step into what is an ensemble, the movie is called The Fantastic Four.
19:26And I pride myself on kind of being, I don't know, the funny guy on set.
19:32And I have to tell you, if there is a competition of who's funniest, who is smartest, and who is the most talented, I'm number four.
19:43And I'm not even being modest here.
19:45I have never been around such, how dare they?
19:49I've never been around such talented fuckers in my life.
19:52Joe is astonishing to me.
19:54Eben is one of the funniest.
19:56He's, Eben to me is a writer in the way that his mind works and the zingers that just come out in conversation.
20:03And Vanessa Kirby is a force of nature.
20:07And she was a leader for me in terms of getting into material like this and making it and elevating it as much as we could and making our relationship as real as it could possibly be.
20:19I have no idea what they'll end up using.
20:21But what she and I put into it was really a marriage story for us in the most human way.
20:28Keeping a family together, starting to expand on that family, the fear of that.
20:37Are you the protectors of this world?
20:41Yes, we are.
20:42Your planet is now marked for death.
20:44I'll confess, I didn't come at it with any sort of attempt at distinguishing it from previous authorships.
20:54I need all of the context and all of the information to kind of like, it's silly to use a word spiritually, but to spiritually kind of like enter into an experience because I can't compartmentalize.
21:08I need all of it to be, it's all happened.
21:12It's all been seen and done before by many.
21:15And so I want it to all kind of like be living in my like imagination.
21:22It's my fault.
21:24I stretched the bounds of space.
21:26And they heard.
21:30Are we safe?
21:33I don't know.
21:34Again, Coco Ulrich did my hair, slicked it, nailed it.
21:41Not a wig.
21:42My hair, my hair.
21:45Come on, Galactus.
21:46Has to be us.
21:52I did all my stretching for real.
21:56I credit the visionaries, costume designers, the production design, our DP.
22:01And then be held ultimately by the vision that Matt Shackman, our director, has for the telling of the story and the way that Kevin Feige has always hoped for the Fantastic Four to be seen.
22:16That is so much of the work because clearly the world is so unique and distinguished in its aesthetic.
22:22The theater of that is something to step into.
22:25I don't know if I'd do it well.
22:27But they had to keep on pulling me back from a very mid-Atlantic, early 60s kind of like talk.
22:34They had a dialect coach that was sort of going to help us into that kind of dialect.
22:39And I took to it so well that they had to pull.
22:41They were like, we actually, you know, because I was like, well, welcome to the family.
22:45July 25th, summer 20th, you know, and they were like, ah, talk more like yourself.
22:51And I had a hard time doing that because I was so into the era, which for me was something to step into rather than so that it's different than what we've seen before.
23:02I mean, I think that what they've created is something that we haven't seen.
23:06We will protect you.
23:10My feet.
23:15So maybe I just talked to your video.
23:21Ask where all your deputies went.
23:22Okay.
23:23Well, why not just ask your governor about her little catch and release policy, okay?
23:27Because if it wasn't for that, maybe I could hold on to my deputies and the people we arrest.
23:32I know.
23:32I know one of them was fired for excessive force and another one was forced to quit by a YouTube First Amendment auditor.
23:38Okay.
23:39Yes.
23:39That is the same auditor that drove away your work.
23:42Your undersheriff died of a fentanyl over time.
23:44From the handling fentanyl.
23:45This is one of the most exciting things I've ever done in my life.
23:49One, Ari, as a filmmaker for me, when I saw his first movie, it was a game changer for me.
23:57And I think that it provided an experience of which I feel like I'm always sort of chasing.
24:02Because I had such magical experiences, like as a kid and throughout my life, seeing movies where you just start to kind of like dream of being a part of something like that or at least having that experience in the movie theater again.
24:17So one, getting to work with Ari was a dream.
24:22Getting to work with Joaquin was a dream.
24:25I'm going to make a better and stronger and more honest leader than you.
24:29So let's just let the voters decide.
24:35You're making a mistake.
24:37Is that why you ran here all panicked?
24:39I came to save you from embarrassment.
24:41Oh, gee whiz.
24:42I'm tearing up.
24:43I'm having, my voice is, my voice is shaking a little bit.
24:49I'm having a visceral reaction because so much of what I've experienced is very different than the experience of shooting a scene like this.
24:56Because Ari would shoot it from start to finish and it was kind of a lengthier scene.
25:01And it felt more like having a dance with another actor and that actor being Joaquin was just a very special, special experience for me.
25:13And Ari would let us play it, would let us play it through.
25:18And I remember there being this kind of like prospero, tempest kind of storm that rolled in in the middle of shooting.
25:28There's like blowing everything everywhere.
25:30And it just seemed like an otherworldly thing that was underlying the kind of like tension between the two characters and the joy that I felt by getting to work with Joaquin.
25:44I guess I just am like, I can't believe I'm in it.
25:48Thank you so much for watching.
25:55Did you really have to watch all of that as much as I did?
25:58Off.
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