From when Sarah Paulson lent money to Pedro Pascal in the beginning: "I gave him my salary so he could feed himself"

That Pedro Pascal (Santiago, Chile, 48 years old) is one of the most desired men on the internet, the actor of the moment and that job offers are raining down on him is an indisputable fact.

However, getting a chance in the world of cinema for the protagonist of

It was not always easy, for whom until 10 years ago it was a complete stranger.

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and who would move to New York at the beginning of the nineties to try his luck were complicated.

With the support of her mother, Verónica, in 1993 she enrolled at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and there she crossed paths with fellow actress Sarah Paulson (Florida, USA, 48 years old), with whom they still maintain a friendship that has lasted 30 years.

"He has already told this publicly before, but there were times when I gave him my daily salary from a job I was in so that he would have some money to eat," recalls the protagonist of American Horror Story in

report from

magazine

which dedicates the cover of its US edition to the Chilean actor.

The protagonist of

spent the last years of the nineties alternating auditions for commercials with his job as a waiter in New York.

Although he himself recounted in the interview that he did receive good reviews, the role of his life did not arrive in the Big Apple, so he decided to move to Los Angeles in 1999, where he had a brief stint in the fourth season of

“I guess those good reviews, my delusional self-determination and not having any real skill at anything else is what kept me going,” admits in the interview Pascal, who would rise to fame with his role as Prince Oberyn Martell in

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At the age of 24, the life of Pedro Pascal and his family are broken by the suicide of his mother Verónica.

In the year 2000 and upon his return from Chile to New York, the situation was still just as difficult for the actor, as Paulson recalls in the same interview.

“We went to see movies all the time in those years.

I think there were things we wanted to escape from, mentally, emotionally and spiritually," adds the actress.

“My idea was that if he didn't achieve something important at 29, it's over.

So I was constantly readjusting what it meant to dedicate my life to this profession and abandoning the idea that it was going to be just like what I had dreamed of as a child.

There were many good reasons to let go of this illusion”, confesses Pascal.

A friendship that lasts 30 years

“You just want me to succeed.

And that to me is a sign that she is a big movie star.

I think he's ready to take the reins from rom-com leads of the past, like Bruce Willis and Mel Gibson.

He can be all of that.

remake

with Pedro.

films be remade

with Pedro”, Paulson claims emphatically and amusingly in the same interview.

It is no coincidence that the protagonist of

dedicates so many compliments to the actor.

The friendship between these two actors is well known, who dedicate themselves whenever they can to public displays of affection through their social networks.

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In 2016, Paulson and Pascal attended the 22nd Screen Actors Guild Awards together in Los Angeles, California.

Three years later, in 2019, the American supported Pascal's debut on Broadway when he played Edmund in

“I love you Pascal, what an extraordinarily moving thing to witness your Broadway debut,” Paulson wrote at the time in a post on his official Instagram account to his 4.2 million followers.

The actor also takes advantage of every meeting or birthday of the American star to post photos together or a video in which Paulson appears dancing.

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But without a doubt, the last and funniest joint appearance was on the

program that Pedro Pascal presented for the first time, on February 4th.

The Chilean invited the actress to participate in one of the sections of the program in which he played a teacher and in which the two joked with the nickname papi

and

in English— that has accompanied the Chilean for a few years. actor, referring to him in multiple internet posts as a male erotic myth.

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