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Sarah PaulsonhadPedro Pascal’s back when he was a struggling actor.
TheAmerican Horror Storyactress, 48, recalled in a recentEsquirecover story on Pascal that in the early days of his acting career in New York City, she would give him some money to survive.
“He’s talked about this publicly, but 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,” Paulson told the outlet.
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However, he said he had found a “family” among some LaGuardia High School graduates, including Paulson, in the city. Paulson said the pair even went to the movies together.
“We would go to see movies all the time in those years 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,” she said.
“It’s just so psychotic,” Paulson said. “[Now] everybody wants a piece of him.”
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She toldEsquireshe believed that Pascal’s success is partially due to his connection to viewers and that he has the chops to go even further in his career.
“You just want him to succeed,” she says. “And that to me, I feel like, is the sign of a major movie star. I’m ready for him to take the reins from the guys from romantic comedies past, likeBruce WillisandMel Gibsonand all these guys. He can be all that. Let’s remakeDie Hardwith Pedro. Remake all theLethal Weaponmovies with Pedro.”
source: people.com
