Why Pedro Pascal Closes the Curtains on His Love Life
Marvelous, Pedro Pascal has once again shown that the greatest illusion in Tinseltown isn’t levitation—it’s convincing fans he’s a “highly private person.” Look, I don’t want to be the one to say it, but here we are: a beloved actor lamenting how complicated relationships get when you toss a spotlight on them. In a Vanity Fair interview published June 24, Pascal scoffed at the “highly private” label, insisting, “I’m very unprivate in my private life.” Seriously, I told you so when I predicted he’d push back against this nonsense.
Three months ago, the Last of Us star formally squashed dating rumors with Jennifer Aniston after they dined together. As he relayed to E! News in March, “We’re friends and we went to dinner with mutual friends. It happens.” End of chapter—except for the internet’s insatiable appetite for scandal. So why zip his lips on romance? Pascal shrugged that personal relationships are “such a complex thing to navigate, even without having this enormous lens on them,” per Vanity Fair. Fair enough. Try surviving relentless speculation about every text message.
Still, he’s not completely shutting the door on domestic bliss. Interviewed by Vanity Fair, he confessed a soft spot for fatherhood: “I’ve had dreams of taking my kids to the movies the way my parents took me.” Cue the collective “aww.” At 50, he’s grateful for the mentors who guided him during his struggling days. “In my 30s I was supposed to have a career. Past 29 without a career meant that it was over,” he admitted. “Basically, everybody took care of me… I had angels around me the whole time.”
If you needed proof of Pascal’s humble origins, look no further than his Buffy the Vampire Slayer cameo in 1999. He was pocketing less than seven dollars and credits that residual check with keeping his Hollywood heartbeat alive, as he shared with Entertainment Tonight in 2024. He then popped up on NYPD Blue in 2001 as a goth named Dio—fake piercings and all—before snagging a recurring arc on The Good Wife in 2009. But it was HBO’s Game of Thrones in 2014 that launched him into pop-culture stratosphere as Prince Oberyn Martell. Fans still lament the Red Viper’s shocking end at the hands of the Mountain.
Pascal’s resume only glitters brighter: Agent Marcus Pike on The Mentalist, Javier Peña in Netflix’s Narcos, and now Joel Miller in The Last of Us. Through it all, he’s deftly dodged the public’s prying questions about his love life. And that, dear reader, is why we can’t have nice things—because the moment someone admits they want normalcy in romance, we all lean in for more drama. What’s next? Keep your eyes peeled for his next career move—and maybe an engagement announcement that never comes.
Sources: Celebrity Storm and Vanity Fair, E! News, Entertainment Tonight
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