Bella Ramsey wonders if the Internet’s “daddy” nickname for Last of Us co-star Pedro Pascal has worn out its welcome.
At some level after Pascal made his debut as Joel to Ramsey’s Ellie on the HBO hit — and naturally, concurrent along with his ongoing run as Grogu’s Mandalorian guardian — he was dubbed a “daddy” by the Internet, to a level that he’s incessantly requested to weigh in on the nickname on crimson carpets and in interviews.
“I very much played into it at the beginning,” Ramsey says in a brand new Vanity Fair interview, “however now I’m apprehensive it’s gone too far.
“I don’t know whether [Pedro]’s still loving it; I need to ask him.” Ramsey added. “He’s a global phenomenon as he should be, because he’s pretty spectacular.”
Pascal, throughout a current Hollywood Reporter roundtable with friends Jeff Bridges, Evan Peters and Kieran Culkin, noticed the dialogue about their Emmy-worthy craft detoured by an inquiry into his “daddy” standing.
“Yeah, I am having fun with it…,” he mentioned, speculating that the net discourse was born of his parental roles on The Mandalorian and now The Last of Us. (Pascal himself has no kids IRL.)
“It seems a little role-related, I think,” he posited. “There was a period where the Mandalorian is very daddy to baby Grogu. Joel is very daddy to Ellie. These are daddy parts. That’s what it is.”
Are you (greater than) prepared for Pascal’s “daddy” nickname to be retired?
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