-Welcome back to "Late Night".
We're here with Pedro Pascal. And you're recently
in this building. You hosted "SNL". I thought
you were fantastic. -Thank you.
[ Cheers and applause ] Thank you! My God. Oh, thank you. -There were a couple of things
I want to ask you about. First of all, I was so tickled
by the sketch where you woke up in a coma -- from a coma -- and you had a very distinct
voice, and, you know, every now and then, I reach out,
and I will say to, you know, a writer I know there,
"Who came up with that?" And I was told that you showed
up with that voice, which it's very funny to me
that you had cultivated that voice outside
of sketch comedy. -[ Laughs ]
-It seems -- Was that your original voice
for "The Mandalorian", and they were like, "No"? -[ Laughs ] [ Imitating L.A. accent ]
What are you talking about? It's perfect. [ Cheers and applause ] This is the way. -[ Laughs ] -[ Normal voice ] Yeah, I did. How dare they actually use
your ideas? -Well, there's a really funny
thing that happens where hosts show up and you'll
say, like, "You have any things? You have any funny voices? Do you do any impressions?" And, I mean, the greatest thing
is when a host brings something like that and it sparks
something. -Right. Yeah, we would talk like that
on the set of "The Last of Us". It started with --
-Which I guess you have to do to, like, deal with
what you're processing. -Basically, yeah. Deal with somebody dying
every episode in front of you. -Now I'm gonna watch
"The Last of Us" with my wife, and at the end of every episode,
I'm gonna be like, [ Imitating L.A. accent ]
That was so sad. -[ Imitating L.A. accent ]
Oh, my God. [ Laughs ] Exactly.
-Those monsters mean business. -No kidding. I can't believe he died. -He was, like, my favorite one! -[ Laughs ] -I don't know, what's gonna
happen next? [ Laughs ] [ Normal voice ] I'm telling
you, it's very contagious. -[ Normal voice ]
Very contagious. I got a little taste. This is my breakfast club
now that I have it. -[ Laughs ] It will not stop,
it spread like a fungus amongst the set. -Yeah, by the way,
could you have, like, a mushroom pasta now
after "The Last of Us", like, could you?
-Yeah, I love mushrooms. -Okay.
-All kinds. -It hasn't put you --
Oh, all kinds? -Yeah.
-Like the kind at restaurants or the kinds you have to, like,
work a little harder to get? -Yeah, exactly. The kinds in restaurants, the kinds that used to come in,
like, a little Ziploc bag in the '90s, and now the kinds
that are in these, like, colorful chocolates.
-Yeah. I will tell you this --
I wouldn't want to have one of those kinds and then
watch "The Last of Us". -That I would not do. That might put you off it
for good so don't do that. [ Chuckles ] -Are you -- I mean, obviously,
you knew you were making a special show. Are you surprised, taken aback
by how, you know, this has become
one of these event shows that people want to watch
when it comes out so they can talk about it? -I knew the game was
a really big deal. And I was really scared and just
presumed that the adaptation wouldn't work, not because it's
been tricky adapting video games into television shows or movies
or anything like that, but because, I don't know,
everyone loved it so much. When I saw all
of the story illustrations for "The Mandalorian", I was
like, "This is gonna be a hit." -Yeah. -No worries. But, I guess, in this one,
you have to see my face. [ Laughter ] -I know some people were --
-And there's no... -I like the idea
that your agent's like, "He would love to wear a helmet
in this." -[ Laughs ] Exactly. It works, it works! -You know, obviously, big fans
of the video game, and, I don't know,
I feel like it's very well-cast where people --
[ Cheers and applause ] -Dude, he's hot.
-Yeah. I know, I think they're
both hot. I think you did a good job.
-[ Laughs ] -All right. The show's great, and I'm gonna
circle back to one last thing on "SNL", 'cause I do really
love when -- especially when you can tell -- you can
tell the cast likes the host, because the host
is sort of with the cast at a moment where everybody
sort of gets the giggles, and there was this sketch --
"Lisa from Temecula" -- where a girl was having trouble
cutting a steak, and the whole table was shaking. And you seemed surprised
by what was happening. Now, of course, I know, and I
think everybody at this point knows there was
a dress rehearsal. Was it markedly different
on air? -Yeah, it bombed during dress. There was a big bone
in the middle of the steak that she couldn't saw through,
for one, and they were just being
a little tame about the table moving. And it really didn't work. And we said, "Oh, no, please
don't cut it. If you really, really shake
the table and you give her a steak that
she can saw through," which ended up in her lap, and
the whole table -- It just kind of started
to happen. We felt the note suddenly occur. And it just --
we all fell apart. It was really --
Bowen started it. -Yeah.
-And everyone says, "He never breaks."
-You just threw him right under the bus right then,
yeah. -Sorry, Bowen.
-That's all right. I mean, I will say that was
a real moment where it cut to the wide,
and Bowen seemed to have no idea it was in the wide, 'cause he
wasn't even trying not to laugh. -He tossed his fork
and fully gave up. He was like, "I can't,"
you know? It was over. And when it was on me
and I was breaking, it's because I was,
like, turning every now and then, and -- yeah,
I'm throwing him under the bus, basically.
-Yeah. -'Cause I'm like, "No, no,
you never break" and so we were done for. -It was really fun to watch. It was a really special episode. And, my goodness, it's so
wonderful to have you back. -It's so nice to see you again. [ Cheers and applause ] -You guys, how about that?
Pedro Pascal. New episodes of "The Last of Us"
air Sundays at 9 on HBO and HBO Max. Third season of
"The Mandalorian" premiers on Disney+
Wednesday, March 1st. We'll be right back
with Taye Diggs.
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Video game Joel IS hot.
Man is ludicrously attractive lol.
I loved that they talked about the SNL skit where everyone lost it 😂
Is it just me or did he seem to panic a wee bit when he mentioned people dying every episode?