“If you could hear it, you would think I was killing an animal.” That’s Pedro Pascal on his cello playing, more than a year after he started lessons for a movie that hadn’t been greenlit yet. The star first had lunch with Tony Gilroy in late July 2025 about taking on the lead role of […]
Pedro Pascal on Learning Cello for ‘Behemoth!,’ Why ‘You’ve Got to Eat S—’ to Make It in Hollywood and the ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ Line His Character Says

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