Los Angeles: Pedro Pascal won the SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series ‘The Last of Us’ at the 30th Screen Actors Guild Awards, reports People. ‘Succession’s Brian Cox, Kieran Culkin and Matthew Macfadyen, as well as ‘The Morning Show’s’ Billy Crudup were among the other SAG Award nominees for male actor, People reports. After being named the winner, Pascal, 48, took the stage to accept the award and began his emotional address by admitting that if he had expected to win he would have gotten involved in ways he wouldn’t have.
He said, “This is wrong for a lot of reasons. I’m a little drunk. I thought I might be drunk.” “And thank you, HBO… Geez Lewis, I’m making a fool of myself. But thank you so much for this!” After calling the award an “incredible honour”, Pascal greeted many of his colleagues and his family through tears, before apparently ending his speech with “I’m going to have a panic attack and I’m going to quit”. Thanked from.
Pascal plays Joel in ‘The Last of Us’, who is on a mission to deliver 14-year-old Ellie (Bella Ramsey) into the hands of scientists in the hopes that she can save the post-apocalyptic world. There was a deep off-screen friendship between the two stars. “I couldn’t have asked for a more precocious, generous, thoughtful teen,” Pascal said during Variety’s Actors on Actors chat with ‘Beef’ star Steven Yeun. And I don’t mean that in a patronizing way. “
He further added, “I trusted Bella to go through so much. We were both scared and shy about it, but Bella pushed me to be mature about it.” The 30th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards were held at the Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall in Los Angeles, reports People. (ANI)
