Pedro Pascal nearly quit acting due to constant rejection

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Esquire, discussing his time working as a waiter throughout the 1990s. At the time, he auditioned for numerous TV show roles and commercials, although few materialised.“I died so many deaths,” he added. “I guess [this] delusional self-determination, and no real skill at anything else, is what kept me going.”In the interview, American Horror Story actress and close friend, Sarah Paulson, also explained how she supported Pascal while he struggled to make a name for himself. “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,” she said.According to the actor, he put a time limit on his efforts, and was contemplating quitting the industry if he hadn’t found a breakthrough role by the end of his 20s.“My vision of it was that if I didn’t have some major exposure by the time I was 29 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 said.“I had a moment of thinking, ‘You’re in your forties and you don’t own a home?

Grow up’… There were so many good reasons to let that delusion go.”Currently, the Chilean-born actor is one of the biggest names in Hollywood and starring in two hit TV shows: The Mandalorian and The Last Of Us.

He also appeared in the fourth season of Game Of Thrones as the character of Oberyn Martell, and starred alongside Nicholas Cage in the 2022 film, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent.Elsewhere, Craig Mazin, the executive producer of The Last of Us, explained that the actor achieved his eventual success due to his determination. “This was not somebody Hollywood sweated to make a star,” he.