On the roundtable, Pascal was joined by actors Evan Peters, Jeff Bridges, Kieran Culkin, Damson Idris, and Michael Imperioli, and so they had a wide-ranging dialogue about their careers and present initiatives. Whereas reflecting on the large initiatives he is been part of, Pascal talked about that he likes taking large dangers with large tales, and Culkin needed to know if it was scary to tackle the position of Joel in “The Final of Us.” Pascal responded:
“Completely scary. And it is that humorous factor of compartmentalizing your emotions about stuff and coping with the quantity of stress on you. I’ve this psychological recreation the place I am like, ‘It is no large deal, no one cares, no one provides a s***.’ […] However this time round, I used to be scared. I used to be so scared. As a result of there was extra of an uncovered silhouette, a silhouette of coolness perhaps, and an expectation to be met so far as what folks’s immersive expertise of the story was. And to disappoint them in that regard felt like it might be … I do not know. You do not wish to let folks down, but in addition no one’s impervious to disappointing folks. I need folks to love me.”
Pascal does have some extent; his different main characters did not have fairly the build-up forward of time. Certain, followers of George R. R. Martin’s “A Tune of Ice and Hearth” books have been enthusiastic about Oberyn, and “Star Wars” followers have been excited to see a brand new Mandalorian, however they weren’t vastly in style lead characters from a massively profitable online game. This was an entire new degree of fandom for Pascal to cope with, and he needed to do it proper.