It is the new Brad Pitt version 2.0. With each outing or intervention, Pedro Pascal, actor seen in The Last of Us, and Narcos ignites the canvas as no one right now. But it is not (that) his smile or his biceps that seduce. The actor also has a “deconstructed” man aura which does good.
Pedro, king of networks
At 50, Pedro Pascal is everywhere. On the internet, it only takes a simple video of him sipping coffee or laughing in an interview to ignite the canvas. The actor plays the game with pleasure, going so far as to comment on the assemblies made by his fans. This craze began in 2015, carried by a series of significant and well -chosen roles (Game of Thrones, Narcos, The Mandalorian, The Last of Us), but it has literally exploded in recent months. As a recognized actor, Pedro Pascal has become a real collective obsession. On Tiktok, there are more than 700,000 publications about it. Some fans speak of “Pedromania”, others go so far as to say “Pedrosexuals”.
The fantasy of a deconstructed man
But why so much success? In reality, if Pedro Pascal fascinates so much, it is because under his mysterious Latino style, and his powerful roles, the man has decided not to follow the virile codes that we constantly see on the screen. For psychologist Amélie Boukhobza, which seduces in Pedro Pascal is less charisma than what it does: “He is both sexy and committed – and that’s what pleases. This rare mixture: assumed, but never threatening virility. “ In a context where toxic masculinity is more and more denounced, it embodies a shape of peaceful masculinity, stripped of its most oppressive attributes.
He himself refuses the posture of the dominant male. Instead, he talks about his trans sister with an unwavered emotion, displays his support for the refugees – recalling that his parents fled the Chilean dictatorship – and evokes paternity as a “state of mind”. On the red carpets, it welcomes affection, hugs, tender gestures, without trying to suppress them or replay them to the masculine. All with sincerity.
A collective projection
If the actor arouses such a craze, it is not only because it reassures: it is also because it allows projection. That of a male ideal that would have integrated the lessons of feminism, without giving up a form of power. A man without posture, without on -the -basy, without strategy. And a lot of hope.
Amélie Boukhobza continues: “The profile of the male ideal is redrawing. The opening to the world, the integration of LGBT rights, an assumed sensuality, a part of femininity in a very virile look … Pedro Pascal ticks all the boxes. In other words: he is a man who is not afraid.”
According to the psychologist, it is therefore not only an actor that we look at, but a figure of transition, between traditional representations and those under construction. A masculinity reconciled with itself.
The example of successful masculinity after #MeToo
Pascal is not only loved: he is desired. “And this desire is not only sexual – it is emotional, ideological, generational. He is the man we admire, whom we would like to have as a father, as a companion, as a friend. He reassures as much as he attracts”, continues our shrink
In the wake of #MeToo, representations of male power were massively questioned. What was tolerated yesterday, vertical authority, emotional coldness, the refusal of vulnerability is now perceived as obsolete, even problematic. Pedro Pascal, he did not need to reinvent himself: he immediately embodies a man capable of emotion without fragility, humor without cynicism, firmness without violence. A man on which men and women can count.
Hoping that it is not an exception, but simply a first example.