The Last of Us star Pedro Pascal reveals ‘psychotic’ learning method – and fans are convinced he’s a serial killer

Pedro Pascal is one of the busiest actors in Hollywood right now. This year alone, the star can be seen in four new films: the drama Freaky Tales, Ethan Coen’s Drive-Away Dolls, the comedy The Uninvited and Ridley Scott’s historical epic Gladiator 2.

This year, Pedro Pascal will not only be in front of the camera for the second season of the horror series The Last of Us, but will also be part of the next big Marvel superhero team. For him that means a lot of text that has to be learned. He found a unique solution for this.

“It’s not even artistic”: Pedro Pascal memorizes dialogues with jumbled letters

Pedro Pascal and fellow SAG Awards nominees Kieran Culkin, Matthew Macfadyen and Billy Crudup spoke about their work at a SAG-AFTRA Foundation roundtable. Pascal reveals an unorthodox learning method.

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I am the Unabomber!“, jokes Pedro Pascal in front of his visibly perplexed colleagues while he says the “psychotic example” presents his learning technique. In order to be able to memorize his text, he creates a cryptic structure that consists of the first letters of each word in his dialogue lines.

The excerpt from the conversation caused numerous funny reactions on social media. Some fans are even convinced that Pedro Pascal has thus revealed himself as a Zodiac killer:

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Only Pedro Pascal knows whether the confusing jumble of letters is actually the most efficient approach. However, he was dependent on unconventional help, as he himself explains:

It’s not even artistic, it’s just a very technical method that I had to learn because I had the terrible experience of forgetting my lines. When is Fantastic Four and The Last of Us Season 2 with Pedro Pascal coming?

It was recently officially announced that Pedro Pascal will soon play one of the most famous Marvel heroes. He will star alongside Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn and Ebon Moss-Bachrach in Fantastic Four as Mr. Fantastic aka Reed Richards. The MCU film is scheduled to be released in the USA on May 2, 2025 in the cinema start.

In addition, Pascal is currently back in front of the camera as Joel Miller for the sequel to the video game adaptation The Last of Us. The second season of the HBO series will premiere in 2025 and is based on the video game The Last of Us Part II.

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