LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: 'The Last of Us' actor Pedro Pascal recently revealed that he experienced three incidents of road rage, which served as a reminder that losing control while driving can have terrible consequences. The 48-year-old Chilean-born actor described his most recent conflict on the road in an interview with Variety's Steven Yeun.
Actors have occasionally been involved in cases of road rage in the past. A Hollywood actress, Denise Richards, was engaged in such a conflict in 2022 when an enraged motorist fired at her car as she was traveling to work in Los Angeles. Additionally, Mexican actor Pablo Lyle was recently sentenced to five years in prison for beating a 63-year-old man fatally following a road-rage incident.
'There’s a big glob of saliva'
Pedro's skills have dominated the television world with hit series such as 'Game of Thrones', 'Narcos', 'The Last of Us', and 'The Mandalorian', but it was very shocking to know that his off-screen persona is not very careful while driving and has had multiple experiences with road rage. "Yesterday was a day. It was my fault,” he revealed to Yeun. "I’ve had three incidents, and they’ve all been my fault. I cut somebody off, and I look over, and there’s a big glob of saliva — like visual effects put it there, man — just dripping down the side of the passenger window. And my sister was like, ‘F**k!’"
'It absolutely humbled me and shocked me'
Yeun asked for more information after being taken aback by the circumstances. "Holy s**t. Like a glob from the driver’s side? He just hocked a hard loogie at you?” he said. Pascal then admitted that the other driver had spit at his car, but he didn't appear to be angry. "I was in shock. It didn’t trigger any rage out of me. It absolutely humbled me and shocked me, scared me a little bit, disturbed me," Pascal stated. "They want me to drink in their saliva. It made me feel guilty. I was like, ‘Gosh, people are going through s**t.'" Describing how accurately the Netflix series 'Beef' captures an actual event that occurred with him yesterday in Los Angeles, Pascal stated, "I was watching ‘Beef’ with envy, in terms of how much it reflects such a living truth that can happen anywhere but was happening to me yesterday in Los Angeles. Which made me admire your performance even more because I was like, 'You’re nailing it.'"
