The life of Pedro Pascal

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He finally got his big break at 39. Now, the internet can't get enough of him.   Pedro Pascal's new movie "Strange Way of Life," premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. This is his story.

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00:00So I got there and they were like

00:05Congratulations, you know welcome and I was like

00:24I am a Chilean

00:28Texan California New Yorker, it sort of turned me into somebody who can be anywhere

00:39I wanted to be an actor my whole life. I grew up in a very moviegoing family

00:57Oh

01:11Wow, sorry, no, I wasn't looking

01:14Something that's resurfaced is a lot of appearances that you've done on TV shows

01:17Sarah Michelle Gellar posted about you being on Buffy. Sarah Michelle Gellar posted about me. Yes, I

01:24Need to get I need to get on the world wide web

01:33There's a lot of nostalgia for the moments of getting a guest starring or

01:38episodic role on on some of these shows that felt

01:43life

01:44Changing or at least life-saving as far as rent was concerned in certain instances

01:53I

02:21Think that there's a fascination

02:23to the stranger-than-fiction

02:25aspect of it the human stories that can be told the unexpected heroism and just the

02:31largeness of these kinds of stories

02:53The other day a guy stopped me on the street, so the guy's like just do the Mando voice

02:57But the Mando voice is like a bedroom voice

03:02Without the mask it just sounds porn

03:23I

03:33Am grew up watching Nicolas Cage movies

03:36I really did and probably know more about Nicolas Cage than the guys that wrote the movie

03:41I think there were even some instances where I knew more about a movie Nick made than he did

03:53I

03:56Just don't understand why do you make sparkly fast romantic montages of me every single day like this

04:06Do you ever look at Instagram accounts devoted to you being a heartthrob when you're feeling down? Yes, I do

04:23I

04:30What if anything did you take from set

04:34props yeah or

04:37trauma I mean

04:39Emotionally I could tell you a lot of things that I took

04:42But I don't think I took any props to do and steal anything. No. I want I really want a knife

04:47I didn't take anything some some gray hair. This is natural now. I've never seen a career like this

04:52I have nothing to do with it. Yes, you do

04:55How do you pick shows that are gonna do or the door door opens, and you're like no way

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