I like my own burps!" Pedro Pascal on playing The Mandalorian and meeting "The Ultimate Daddy

One of the things I loved about this film, and Jon Favreau had said it before, I didn't realize how much it was until I saw it. He said this was a father-son story, it's a family story, it's a story about love, it's a story about chosen family, it's a story about all of those things. So how much did you think about or did it sit with you when you're making this movie where it's like the hero is the protector but then you know the child kind of starts to take care of the parent and how much is playing the Mandalorian change maybe the way you think about protection and family and choosing and love? It's kept me completely connected to like the most important things in life that are you know the people that you love and the need that you have to protect the things that you love, covet the things that you love. It's kind of crazy that like this green adorable big-eared creature with like three fingered claws and the force and this faceless armored from head to toe bounty hunter reflect like such a human and relatable relationship of parent and child, chosen family, everything that you've just said and the evolution of that relationship and how it has its own life in its own terms. Before going into harm's way check your armor first. We're protecting everything the rebellion fought for. Good luck you're gonna need it. By the way you know that Grogu is gonna take your mantle as the internet's boyfriend. Oh. You're done buddy. But he's had it. You're done. He's Grogu's been running things from day one. Yeah for sure. That's why his name's in the title. Exactly. We've all heard stories of the Mandalorian bounty hunter and a child. I only hunt imperial war criminals. I'll take out every bad guy in your deck of cards. This isn't about revenge. It's about preventing another war. You called Sigourney Weaver the biggest badass and I concur. I definitely do. Was there ever a moment where you just had that oh my god it's Sigourney Weaver. Yeah every single time I freaking see her. You know. You know for real. No I'm being I'm being serious because I get tongue-tied every time I see her. I you know it's incredible because like she's a perfect example of like early early early imprint right and then she kept on authoring all of these like incredible performances in every single genre right and then I get older and then learn that she trained in the theater that she comes from the theater has seen her on stage. Her husband ran a theater in Tribeca a chic theater called The Flea. You know so again like I was saying before the thing that connects you to it more than anything is the love of it and the art of it and she's a perfect example of what is a movie star who understands like being on stage and the struggle and going after it right. So we've already shared like nerd stories and like and and and she's just been a dream to be around. Sure. And and I I can't get over it. I'll just I'll never get over it. Strap in. Need a professional. Hang on. What happens when you're not there to protect him? You good? We're gonna have a little lesson in Manifestation 101. Okay. Because apparently you're very good at it. Oh really? Yes because you said that you secretly wished that The Mandalorian would become a movie. That's right. Now we're here. I started to say it on the on the press line. Oh okay. So it was like word your mouth. I kept it to myself for a while and then I started opening my mouth a little bit. Yeah. So I don't think that had anything to do with it but um but I mean wish granted that's for sure. Well why don't we claim it and say you manifested this moment. I manifested it. Do you do that though? Do you believe in that? I think I have to. I yeah I do. I have to believe in it um because I definitely am experiencing something that I'm a part of something that people are going to get to experience on the big screen that I got to experience on the big screen when I was a kid and that blows my mind. Yeah. And my dreams they started you know developing because of the big screen experience that is Star Wars and many other movies that live in my heart and in my brain and are imprints. So um I love that there's a new Star Wars movie on the biggest screen possible that audiences can experience together and have and I don't know a new generation of moviegoers hopefully that that will have similar memories. Monsters. But you seem to live in a place of gratitude. You seem to live in a place like none of this that I'm doing is lost on me like I'm living my dreams like you said from when you were a young kid. So have you had other moments along this journey in life that you feel like okay I thought this I dreamed it and now it's happening like I don't know your big break moment. Um you know it is definitely a long journey. Yeah. Definitely hard times and I think that some dreams die for them to be born again um and I think that just like you feel like love can die for it to be born again and um and but it never does you know dreams never die love never dies but you experience these sort of like I don't know uh uh you you you you grow you get knocked down you get back up. Sure. You know um and so I I think that that yeah maybe I did get to a point where I was like you need to be realistic about your future. Baby preach. You know and like that doesn't mean change what you're doing but definitely change the expectation of what it's gonna get you and and and and and and and build a relationship to what you love the most about it which was for me you know um community and um acting and storytelling and and being an art you know um and uh and so and so that that that that was what that was what wherever that was going to take me was where I was going to go. The old protect the young.