Sarah Paulson Gave Pedro Pascal Her Acting Pay ‘So He’d Have Money to Feed Himself’ as a Struggling Actor: ‘You Want Him to Succeed’
variety.comZack Sharf Digital News Director Sarah Paulson and Pedro Pascal’s friendship is three decades strong. In a new Esquire cover story on “The Last of Us” and “The Mandalorian” actor, Paulson revealed that she helped financially support Pascal in the early 2000s when he was still struggling to make it as a working actor.
Paulson would some times give Pascal the money she made as part of her acting per diem so that he could feed himself. The two actors first met in 1993 when Pascal came to New York City as a student in NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. “We would go to see movies all the time in those years,” Paulson said, “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.” After collage, Pascal moved to Los Angeles to try and make it as an actor.
He landed some television work on “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” “Touched by an Angel” and “Undressed,” but not enough for him to pay the bills.
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