Sarah Paulson has revealed that she used to support Pedro Pascal financially during his early days of struggling in Hollywood. While Pascal has hit it big now with “The Mandalorian” and “The Last of Us,” he wasn’t always such a successful actor. Early on, Paulson would help him out with cash so that he could afford to eat.
“He’s talked about this publicly, but there were times when I would give him my per diem from a job I was working on so that he could have money to feed himself,” Paulson told Esquire of their early years. “You just want him to succeed. And that to me, I feel like, is the sign of a major movie star.”
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Meanwhile, Pascal himself nearly gave up on acting after facing so many rejections. It seemed like he just couldn’t get his big break no matter how hard he worked. Hearing “no” so many times really started to take its toll.
“I died so many deaths. My vision of it was that if I didn’t have some major exposure by the time I was twenty-nine years old, it was over, so I was constantly readjusting what it meant to commit my life to this profession, and giving up the idea of it looking like I thought it would when I was a kid,” he recalled. “There were so many good reasons to let that delusion go.”
Thankfully, he didn’t give up, and his efforts paid off in the end. He’s now one of the most successful TV actors out there, and Hollywood wouldn’t be the same without him.
Of course, it wasn’t all bad news during his early years. He appeared in “Touched by an Angel” back in the early 2000s and was even in episodes of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Law & Order.” However, it wasn’t until the 2010s that his career really started taking off. And it seems like we have Sarah Paulson to (partially) thank for keeping Pedro Pascal going when things got tough!
