Pedro Pascal knows what his fans want — and he’s not afraid to shamelessly deliver.
The actor, 50, showed off his biceps in a black, body-hugging tank top while attending the premiere for his latest film Eddington at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday, March 17. The top — and the actor’s muscles — caught the attention of countless fans, who couldn’t help but fawn over Pascal’s physique via social media.
“Me liking every pedro pascal tweet since he arrived in cannes yesterday,” wrote @peetaspascal on X, alongside a GIF from The Voice featuring former One Direction member and coach Niall Horan hitting that coveted button that turns the coach’s chairs towards the stage.
“Every time someone invalidates me for finding a 50 year old man hot, pedro pascal validates me by showing up even sexier and hotter than the day before,” added @wethairjoel.
“Pedro Pascal’s biceps that’s it that’s the tweet,” another fan posted.
Pascal was also asked about the United States’ current political climate while walking the red carpet, which also caught the attention of fans and earned the actor praise online.
“Fear is the way that they win,” Pascal said. “So keep telling the stories, keep expressing yourself and keep fighting to be who you are. F**k the people that try to make you scared, you know? And fight back. This is the perfect way to do so in telling stories. And don’t let them win.”
Variety reported that Pascal’s latest movie received a 5-minute standing ovation after its debut at Cannes. The film,set in May 2020 in a small town in New Mexico during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic,also stars Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, Luke Grimes, Deirdre O’Connell, Micheal Ward and Clifton Collins Jr.
During a press conference at Cannes, the actor was also asked about U.S. immigration policies. “Obviously, it’s very scary for an actor participating in a movie to sort of speak to issues like this. It’s far too intimidating the question for me to really address, I’m not informed enough,” he added.
“I want people to be safe and to be protected, and I want very much to live on the right of history. I’m an immigrant. My parents are refugees from Chile. We fled a dictatorship, and I was privileged enough to grow up in the U.S. after asylum in Denmark. If it weren’t for that, I don’t know what would have happened to us. I stand by those protections. I’m too afraid of your question, I hardly remember what it was.”
Pascal added that director Aster wrote the movie “in a state of fear and anxiety about the world.”
“I wanted to show what it feels like to live in a world where nobody can agree on what is real anymore,” the actor said. “Over the last 20 years, we’ve fallen into this age of hyper-individualism. That social force that used to be central in liberal mass democracies — and agreed upon vision of the world — that is gone now. COVID felt like the moment where that link was finally cut for good. I wanted to make a film about what America feels like, to me. I’m very worried.”
