Everyone Has Had Enough Pedro Pascal. Please, We Do Not Want Any More

Filed under: OVEREXPOSURE

Someone get this man to wardrobe, stat

Like most Americans, I was unaware that Pedro Pascal existed until he oozed onto the small screen as the omnisexual Oberyn Martell in HBO’s Game of Thrones. Spoiler alert: Martell’s gigantic dueling opponent catches him gloating, mid-monologue, and crushes his head with bare hands. The book series shall never be finished because George R.R. Martin is a postmodern leftist, and therefore unable to complete a heroic journey of any kind. With producers forced to make up their own ending, the final Season 8 also disappointed fans of the show. Likewise, the Chilean-born Pascal has ceased to smoke up scenes. Now 50, he is being typecast as a disappointment, a career which tracks with his breakthrough role.

Along the way, under the pressure of #MeToo and Time’s Up, Pascal transitioned into an avatar of ‘non-toxic’ masculinity characterized by progressive sanctimony. Overexposure has soured his feminized flavor. His characters have been assassinated by script writers determined to kill heroic male archetypes. Everyone has had enough Pedro Pascal by now, thank you. We do not need or want any more. At some point, likely during 2025 and 2026, his currency as a celebrity will experience a serious market correction. Hollywood simply cannot afford to subsidize his form of stardom anymore. The politics of the film business are changing, but they are downstream of cultural changes, not least of these being the broad public rejection of once-great franchises that were taken over by ‘girlboss’ and Mary Sue characters during the last decade.

Pascal has been a willing participant in this destruction of beloved properties, in fact his eagerness to subvert masculinity was a key part of his casting appeal during the era of Woke Hollywood. Now his latest big-budget film, Fantastic Four: First Steps, is reportedly receiving hasty reshoots because test audiences did not like Pascal’s portrayal of Mr. Fantastic/Reed Richards. If we are to judge by the trailer released a month ago, Susan Storm/Invisible Woman, played by Vanessa Kirby, is the central character of the plot as it was already filmed, while Pascal’s Richards is her ineffectual consort rather than a heroic leader. Disney needs its Marvel properties to stop failing, and meanwhile audiences are rejecting the kind of film in which Pedro Pascal has developed his acting career. Thus the reshoots just eight weeks ahead of release.

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