Pedro Pascal has been appearing onscreen since the '90s, but he really blew up after playing Oberyn Martell on Game of Thrones. He was only on the show for one season, but it's impossible to forget him, especially after Gregor "the Mountain" Clegane crush his head to plup with his bare hands at Tyrion Lannister's trial by combat.
Over a decade later, Pedro Pascal suffered another brutal onscreen death on another high-profile HBO TV show: The Last of Us. His character, Joel, was mercilessly tortured and killed earlier this season by a new character named Abby (Kaitlyn Dever). Is Pedro Pascal a glutton for this very specific kind of public punishment? You'd have to ask him, but his sister Lux, an actor herself, is tired of watching it.
"I have to say that being Pedro Pascal's sister, I knew how that episode would end," Lux Pascal told Remezcla at the 2025 Platino Awards. "I knew what was going to happen. But even so, I saw it and I wanted to throw the iPad."
"I burst into tears, and it's not the first time he's done it to me. It's not the second time he's done it to me. I think it's the fourth time he's done it to me. Because how many deaths has he had? Game of Thrones, Equalizer 2, The Last of Us - each is more violent than the other... seeing my brother die that way, I didn't like it at all."
Can you imagine watching your favorite TV show only for your brother to come on and get brutally killed, and then for it to happen again a decade later? I'd be asking questions at the barbecue.
Pedro Pascal will next appear on the big screen in The Fantastic Four: First Steps, which will be out in theaters on July 25, 2025. That one's a Marvel movie, so I really doubt that his character, Reed Richards, will suffer a horrible death, especially since we know Reed will show up again in the next Avengers movie. Then again, Pascal does have a reputation to uphold, so I'm not ruling anything out.
Despite Joel's demise, Pedro Pascal showed up again in the most recent episode of The Last of Us, which strung together a series of flashbacks. The Last of Us season 2 finale will air this Sunday night on HBO and Max, sans Pedro Pascal. But as for whether anybody will die, that's a much more open question.
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