Pedro Pascal had THIS star have his back when he was ‘struggling’

Pedro Pascal had someone to look out for him.

Pedro Pascal talked openly about the challenging beginnings of his acting career.

Pascal was a struggling actor traversing the maze of auditions and making ends meet before he became the internet's 'daddy'.

Longtime friend Sarah Paulson said that there were instances when she assisted Pascal financially in his early years for his new cover interview with Esquire.

"He's talked about this publicly, but there were times when I would give him my per diem from a job I was working on so that he could have money to feed himself," Paulson said.

When Pascal relocated to New York to enrol in NYU's Tisch School of the Arts in 1993, the two came into contact.

After graduating from college, Pascal moved to Los Angeles and got small but serviceable roles on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Touched by an Angel, and Undressed.

Around 2000, he went back to New York and kept up his relentless audition schedule.

"I died so many deaths," Pascal said of those days.

"My vision of it was that if I didn't have some major exposure by the time I was 29 years old, it was over, so I was constantly readjusting what it meant to commit my life to this profession, and giving up the idea of it looking like I thought it would when I was a kid. There were so many good reasons to let that delusion go."

Pedro Pascal, 'everybody wants him'

Pascal made remarkable appearances in Game of Thrones and Narcos, but it was his leading roles in the popular series The Mandalorian and The Last of Us that really elevated his star profile.

Now "everybody wants a piece of him," Paulson said.

"You just want him to succeed. And that to me, I feel like, is the sign of a major movie star. I'm ready for him to take the reins from the guys from romantic comedies past, like Bruce Willis and Mel Gibson and all these guys."