The world can’t get enough of Pedro Pascal — and neither can San Antonio, as he doesn’t shy away from his time in the city. Pascal shared moments of his life while living in San Antonio in a recent Vanity Fair article, Everyone Wants a Piece of Pedro Pascal.
Pascal, who most recently starred in the romantic comedy Materialists, shared with Vanity Fair and Austin writer Karen Valby how his mother María Verónica Pascal Ureta received her PhD from Trinity University in San Antonio. Pascal and his family fled Chile and landed in San Antonio when he was nine years old, Valby wrote. Pascal said they moved to escape General Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship.
While living in San Antonio, Pascal, who has starred in The Last of Us, Gladiator II, The Mandalorian, Narcos, and Game of Thrones, remembered how his mother would drop him off at a movie theater for the afternoon. MySA also reported this memory, in which Pascal revealed he would try to sneak into R-rated movies. Valby wrote how Pascal loved going to the movies, sharing how he would try to “squeeze in two and a half showings of Poltergeist before his mom returned for him.”…