'Mandalorian' Star Pedro Pascal Is the Complicated New Face of Sci-Fi

PEDRO PASCAL is a little too nice, actually. Not only is Pascal returning for season three of The Mandalorian, he’s also starring in HBO’s The Last of Us, probably the biggest video-game-to-TV adaptation of all time. It’s unthinkable—magazine covers, TV stardom, all of it—for a kid who wrapped himself up in ’80s movies and late-night HBO after his family fled Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship in Chile, seeking political asylum in Denmark before eventually ending up in the United States. Subscribe to WIRED Photograph: Peter Yang Maybe that’s why Pascal now seems chiefly concerned with making those around him feel comfortable. Like most celebrities, there’s a part of him that is a little insecure and hungry for validation; even an offhand compliment about one of his performances seems to set him at ease.