The Decline And Fall Of Pedro Pascal
Is happening faster than I had expected
Twelve days ago, I predicted the imminent decline of Pedro Pascal’s career. His new Fantastic Four: First Steps movie is in last-minute reshoots just weeks before release as producers humanize the Silver Surfer and replace the entire third act because test audiences did not like Pascal in it. Postmodern Hollywood is incapable of telling a heroic story and makes casting choices based on identity characteristics. Pedro Pascal’s star has risen in these business conditions, which are rapidly changing. After years of overexposure, Pascal will be the wrong man for the new roles in Tinseltown, anymore.
That essay, linked below, is still locked another ten days for premium subscribers only. As if my words were a cue in his script, Pascal provided fresh fodder for critics, so that the entertainment channels that I follow are abuzz with new speculation about his imminent decline and fall. Comparisons to Rachel Zegler are general. It is all happening the way I had expected, but faster than I had expected. Here is an update on the retrograde character arc of Padro Pascal, the man who made his fortune playing emasculated manhood when the movie business was at peak woke. May his kind never see such overexposure again.
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