Paul Mescal Calls Pedro Pascal a "Wonderful Friend" on 'Gladiator 2' Set | Academy Museum Gala 2024

Congratulations! What does it mean to get this academy recognition tonight? It's a huge, huge honour. It's not something that I, like, when the offer came in I wasn't, it's not something I'm expecting and honestly was somewhat reticent because I didn't understand the context of it and then when it was about somebody kind of at the infancy of their careers and kind of trying to establish what the career means to them and what they hoped it made more sense and I'm just really proud to get to express what this job and this industry means to me. Gladiator's kind of out in the world now as of last night. It's starting to come out in the world. I didn't even know the kind of social reactions were going to be released yesterday, thankfully, but it's gone, I think it's gone down really well. Yeah, so onwards. What was it like shooting those scenes with Pedro? I mean, Pedro's a king, like there's no, he's just such a, he's such a warm energy, he's obviously such an incredibly talented man but like he's a real, he's got a wonderful kind of paternal and he's a wonderful friend to have on set and he kind of keeps everybody even-keeled. Yeah, we've heard a lot about these sets being built kind of very grandly. What was it like kind of stepping into that for the first time? The set in Morocco was kind of the big introduction to me into the scale of what we were expecting and then I think actually weirdly as the film was coming to a close, I started to take it in again. I was like, oh, this is probably something that I won't ever see again or to this scale, like it's not common anymore. Yeah. And is Gladiator and Wicked going to be the next Barbenheimer? I don't want to jinx anything, like how amazing would that be for this industry, especially on a night like tonight? Like I think that was such a massive moment for the industry last year and if we can replicate anything next year near that, it would be huge. Yeah, it would be huge. Great. Thanks very much.