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INTERVIEW: PEDRO PASCAL

“Every single

project that you
get involved in
feels like you’re

becoming a part

of a family. This is
the most invited
into a family I’ve

ever felt.”

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something that is as established as the Star 05 Pascal describes the intimidating. It is a visual-effects experience, and
Wars galaxy.” welcome he received an art-department experience. As a cast member,
at Celebration 2019
Pascal is equally as effusive about working with as a visceral “exchange to have that kind of support to lift you into it,
Favreau, and he feels the combination of the two of energy.” is such an essential component—more so than
creatives has made for a very special project. “To anything I’ve ever done.”
06 Dave Filoni and Pedro
have people who are as excited about it as you are, Pascal have fun with Another pleasant surprise for Pascal has been
and as the fans are—and as anyone who really the audience at Star how welcoming the wider world of Star Wars
Wars Celebration.
wants a good story is—it makes for a really, really has been, including how the fans have embraced
genuine, unique experience,” he says. 07 Taking a bow at the series. “Every single project that you get
For his part, Pascal feeds on that energy, Celebration 2019: involved with, it feels like you’re becoming part
(Left to right)
crediting their enthusiasm for the Star Wars Jon Favreau, Dave of a family, but this is the most invited into
galaxy as a key part of what he has been able Filoni, Pedro Pascal, a family I have ever felt,” he shares. “It is an
Gina Carano, and
to bring to the role of the Mandalorian. “That exchange of energy. It hit me like the back of a
Carl Weathers.
energy helps you do the job,” he explains. jet in Chicago at Star Wars Celebration. It’s like
“It’s a component that you don’t count on, a visceral realization. I have never felt anything
especially with Star Wars, because it can be very like that.”

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