Pedro Pascal Delivers a Smokin’ Hot Shoot and Discusses His Cameo on Stage for Bad Bunny’s Halftime Show

Pedro Pascal has us swooning and sweltering in the photoshoot for his latest story with Fantastic Man magazine (I need a moment to relish in the glory and just sit with the beauty of it all).

The Last of Us star shared how he managed to land a spot in Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show. The short version: persistence, a selfie, and a little bit of chaos.

“I wanted to participate in any way – literally a volunteer position, like serving coffee if needed – and I put the feelers out through people I work with,” Pascal said. “When it comes to representation synchronized with celebration there’s no one better than Benito at the moment, and that fills me with inspiration outside of just being super into his music.” From inbox to end zone

The outreach didn’t land right away. Pascal had just wrapped work on director Tony Gilroy’s upcoming project “Behemoth” when he decided to follow up with a more… memorable nudge.

“I was lamenting about not hearing back and I sent someone an email with a selfie of me sticking my tongue out, being, like, ‘It’s really me.’ Within 25 minutes, they called me back and they were like, ‘We want you to come to the show.’”

That last-minute yes came with minimal instructions. Wear beige. Be ready.

Pascal soon found himself swept from the stands into a backstage lineup that read like a pop culture roll call. “We’re up in the stands watching the game and somebody pulls me from my seat and takes me backstage and then there’s Cardi B and there’s Young Miko and Karol G and Jessica Alba,” he recalled. “They do a wardrobe check and then they tell me, ‘OK, so the vibe is: you’re dancing.’”

“I started to realize right before they started, and I was like, ‘It’s the Casita. I’m such a fucking idiot. Oh my god, I’m going to be in the Casita,’ as I was being marched out into the field. So I think that’s why I seemed like a deer in headlights.” Fame, later in life

Pascal’s rise didn’t follow the typical overnight narrative. He broke through in his late 30s with Oberyn Martell on Game of Thrones, and he says that timing shaped how he handles attention now.

“I think there are two ways of looking at it,” said Pascal, who turned 51 on April 2. “There’s a universal feeling of imposter syndrome that we all can experience when we’re being unkind to ourselves, especially if it’s somehow uncomfortable to get what you want.”

He added that age has also brought perspective.

“Then the kinder side of it is that, as old as I feel, and as silly as some of it can be – because of ‘What is a 50-year-old man doing dancing in La Casita?’ – I’m incredibly grateful for having been a fully developed character before experiencing any kind of large-scale exposure. I’m kind of out of the oven, already baked. I was 38 years old when I got the part of Oberyn Martell [in ‘Game of Thrones’].”

That mix of self-awareness and humor has become part of his public appeal, whether he’s leading a prestige drama or popping up in a halftime spectacle he basically manifested himself. The mustache stays… for now

Of course, no Pascal interview is complete without addressing the facial hair.

“I’d never had the courage to sport facial hair of any kind because I felt like I grew such weak facial hair. To this day, I can’t grow a proper beard,” he said. “The role where I was assisted with specific facial-hair grooming was that of Oberyn Martell. Then came ‘Narcos’, in which I felt like a moustache was completely fitting for the period.”

He’s kept it around, at least in part, for aesthetic reasons.

“So now I sort of cling a little to the vanity of having some definition in the face with my very weak, patchy facial hair. But if the role calls for it, it can all disappear.”

For now, though, the mustache, and the willingness to send a bold follow-up email, remains intact.

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