Sarah Paulson Recalls Giving Pedro Pascal Money From Her Acting Jobs 'to Feed Himself'

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Pedro Pascal may be one of Hollywood's most talked-about stars — amid buzzworthy roles on  and but there was a time when he was a struggling actor leaning on financial help from friends.

In a new cover story for , Pascal and Sarah Paulson look back on their three decades of friendship and recall a time when Paulson gave Pascal money «to feed himself.» «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 says. «We would go to see movies all the time in those years,» Paulson says, «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.»A post shared by Pedro Pascal he/him (@pascalispunk)The longtime friends met in 1993 when they were both students at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.

After college, Pascal moved to Los Angeles and landed minor TV roles on ,  and . However, he was struggling to support himself financially and was starting to give up on his dream of making it in the industry.