Even though it is today one of the most recognizable Hollywood faces and admired the industry that triumphs wherever it goes, Pedro Pascal did not always have it easy to stand out as an actor. Until the arrival of papers like those of ‘Game of Thrones’ either ‘Narcos’ last decade, the Chilean through complications to survive in this job since the beginning of the century – he has admitted that ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ saved his life – but before even preparing to interpret different characters for fiction, Pascal had other jobs as disparate as that of dancing in nightclubs.
You may have never heard it, but today we are going to rescue history from when Pedro Pascal lived in Madrid to late nineties and he was a gog in one of the most popular Madrid nightclubs. An anecdote that there is no waste and demonstrates Pascal’s talent for moving like a fish in water in any situation.
Pedro Pascal is in love with Spain and his time of gog in Madrid is one of his best life chapters.
It was him year 1996 and Pedro Pascal visited Madrid, the Spanish capital, to carry out an anthropology study for New York University where he studied dramatic art. The aspiring actor at that time, after finishing his studies, I decided to stay two months more in the city to work, party and, in general, soak up the activity and people of the capital.
The brief period of his stay in Madrid quickly made Pascal felt devotion for the countryas he recalled in an exclusive interview for The Other Chronicle in 2017, explaining: “I am in love with Spain, although I don’t come much. “One of the best chapters of my life took place here many years ago.”.
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“One of the best chapters of my life took place here [Madrid] “many years ago”.
The interpreter said that in those times I met Dani Pannulloa choreographer who gave him work in his club and at his parties, so that he could dance in the show House of Devotionwhich was carried out every Thursday at the Morocco nightclubone of the party rooms in the center of Madrid most emblematic of the cityon Marqués de Legans Street, which is still opening its doors more than two decades later.
“I didn’t take off my clothes, but I was a dancer and he had silver hair. I have some photos that make you die”the actor recalled with a laugh about his summer job as a gog that led him to meet personalities like David Delfn before he became a designer, or Antonia San Juanactress who I taught myself to move in that world and that a few years later he would gain great repercussion with his role in ‘Everything about my mother’the film by Pedro Almodvar (or the series ‘The one that is coming’).
From this same season living in Madrid, Pascal told in one of his visits to the program The Anthill something very similar: “I almost stayed forever because I fall in love with Madrid. […] Of the night, of the day, of everything […] Me with silver hair, soccer jersey and platform sneakers […] They paid me in pesosthat’s why I almost stayed”.
Unfortunately, Pascal has also admitted that after his time in Madrid, after returning to New York to finish his studies, I lost contact with the Spanish people and friends I met at that time. “Although e-mail already exists, it was not like now. I felt sorry“.
However, the filming of the third season of ‘Narcos’ allowed the actor ‘The Last of Us’ meet Javier Cmara (one of his favorite actors), with whom he was able to talk about that summer of ’96 in Madrid. “He knew everyone, obviously. I couldn’t believe it. Javier is going to put me in contact with everyone“noted Pascal enthusiastically.
The relations with our country of the Chilean do not end here, since in their ancestry there is a Basque grandfather and one Mallorcan grandmother and, furthermore, in 2023 I participated in the filming of the short film ‘Strange way of life’, by Almodvar. Pascal lives today based in New York, but was raised in Texas after fleeing his country with his family when he was just a baby, due to the military coup that overthrew Salvador Allende.
Fortunately, Pedro Pascal now enjoys monumental fame that has taken him to the absolute starry, and even to be one of the most desired men on the entire planet. After his successful passage through series as ‘The Mandalorian’ either ‘The Last of Us’its following and promising projects they pass by reboot for the big screen of ‘The Fantastic Four’ in the UCM, where to give life to Reed Richardsand the expected ‘Gladiator 2’ by Ridley Scott.
