Sarah Paulson helped pre-fame Pedro Pascal survive: ‘Money to feed himself’

nypost.com:

told Esquire for the magazine’s splashy April-May cover story on the suddenly ubiquitous star.Pascal, also 48, and Paulson began their 30-year friendship in 1993 when they both attended NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.According to the “Game of Thrones” actor, he fell into a group of friends — that included Paulson — who recently graduated from the prestigious LaGuardia HS, famously featured in the 1980 film “Fame.”“I got an entire New York family through them,” the Chilean-American actor recalled. “To the point where they still forget I didn’t actually go to high school with them.”The duo instantly bonded over their shared love of cinema.“We would go to see movies all the time in those years,” said Paulson. “And we would get so lost in them.

You can fill in the blanks about the why of that however you like, but I think there were things we wanted to escape mentally, emotionally, spiritually.”The Post reached out to Pascal and Paulson for comment.

Following his graduation from NYU, “The Mandalorian” star worked as a waiter at several restaurants — and getting fired from most of them — while auditioning for commercials or industrial films.“I was getting my ass f – – king kicked,” Pascal told the outlet.Pascal also recalled how he would often get very close to securing a role, only for another person to ultimately beat him.

Despite that, Pascal kept auditioning. “I died so many deaths,” said Pascal. “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.