Pedro Pascal is the 2024 People’s Choice for Best Male TV Star.
It’s Pedro Pascal’s world and we’re simply dwelling in it. Days after being forged as Reed Richards within the Marvel Cinematic Universe successfully receiving the function of a lifetime, Pascal has earned some main {hardware} for his trophy case. Sunday, Pascal walked away with the Male TV Star of the Year Award on the 2024 People’s Choice Awards for his efficiency as Joel Miller in HBO’s The Last of Us. The Last of Us additionally received the People’s Choice Award for Best Drama Show of the Year.
Pascal beat the sector in a crowded class. Other nominees for Male TV Star of the Year included Chase Stokes (Outer Banks), Jason Sudeikis (Ted Lasso), Jeremy Allen White (The Bear), Kieran Culkin (Succession), Samuel L. Jackson (Secret Invasion), Steve Martin (Only Murders within the Building), and Tom Hiddleston (Loki).
The second season of The Last of Us is now filming, with Pascal trying to wrap that up earlier than transferring onto filming his function in Marvel’s The Fantastic Four. Little is understood concerning the plot of the present’s sophomore outing, and sequence creator Craig Mazin has hinted it could not essentially adapt the identical story of the online game it is primarily based on.
“I’m never gonna say there are things that are gonna happen in the show that happened in the game. You never know what we’re gonna do,” Mazin revealed in an interview final 12 months. “But I will say that it is the adventure, the journey is the point. There are things that will shock people, things that were in the game, things that were not in the game, and that’s okay. As long as they’re purposeful, they’re not there to just simply shock. We are not interested in creating social media fear. We just want to tell the story the way we think it should be told.”
“Will there be furor? Yeah, probably. I mean, there usually is, starting even with casting,” Mazin continued. “We knew they were the exact right person to cast and they had to go through quite a few months of people being awful on social media until they saw what we saw. That, to me, is the point. We don’t operate to either make people happy on social media or avoid making them upset. We just do what we think is right, and we hope that people come along for the ride and enjoy it.”
The first season of The Last of Us is now streaming on Max whereas the second season has but to set a launch date.
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