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Pedro Pascal hated how much he looked while being clean shaven to play Maxwell Lord in Wonder Woman 1984 that he said he’ll “never go back.” Sure enough, in all of the FIVE projects he’s starred in this year — The Last of Us, Freaky Tales, The Materialists, Eddington, and The Fantastic Four: First Steps — Pascal has got a beard.
Given how much of a disaster Wonder Woman 1984 was, it can perhaps be easy to forget that Pedro Pascal starred in the film as the villainous Maxwell Lord. While not quite the super-mega-A+-lister he is right now, it still was in the midst of the actor’s meteoric rise through Hollywood and one of the few misfires he’s had over the last decade or so.
According to Pascal, while he “loved” Wonder Woman 1984 — Sure, pal, whatever you say — he hated his clean shaven look so much that he’ll never return to it unless required.
Pedro Pascal hated his last clean-shaven role so much that he says he’ll never go back
“I grow such s— facial hair, but if I were to shave it all off… I really look very [awful]. Strongly disagree with a clean shaven me,” Pascal said in an interview with LADBible (no relation to BroBible although we’ve long respected our across-the-pond British Bros).
“I was so appalled by the way I look in Wonder Woman 1984. I loved the movie, but I was so appalled by the way that I looked that I never have gone back. Unless it were completely necessary. If they asked me to be clean shaven for ‘Fantastic Four’ and insisted then I would’ve done it. But it was a very collaborative creation for all of our looks in the movie.”
Pascal might be one of the most famous actors in the world these days, but he remains ever-relatable, as most men who grow facial hair would agreed that prefer their face with it than without it.