Pedro Pascal is not only the star of The Mandalorian or The Last of Us, but also an internet phenomenon. He apparently gets his ambiguous fan nickname a bit wrong.
Pedro Pascal is Daddy. Thanks to his roles and public persona, the main actor from The Mandalorian and The Last of Us enjoys great popularity among many fans, who refer to him on the internet with the English term “daddy”. He himself sympathetically understands it to be merely a reference to his fatherly series characters. But that’s only half the truth.
The Mandalorian star Pedro Pascal overlooks the filthy meaning of his nickname
“The daddy thing seems to be related to roles. At times the Mandalorian was very daddy to Grogu, [The Last of Us character] Joel is very daddy to Ellie. Those are just daddy roles. “
Anyone who has even rudimentarily studied the various meanings of “daddy” on the internet will have to stifle a laugh at Pascal’s innocent explanation. Some readers on Twitter reacted accordingly.
NO! PEDRO THATS NOT WHAT DADDY
MEANS IN INTERNET TERMS! PEDRO! https://t.co/d5WE2jqp89 pic.twitter.com/RaX7fl7mmj– ً (@HailEternal) May 24, 2023
“No, Pedro! That’s not what Daddy means on the internet!” is what you can read there. On the one hand, Daddy can indeed only mean a fatherly figure there, but it often implies a sexual component. The target is men who are perceived as attractive and who are said to have an authoritarian or dominant aura. Against this background, the word is also used in the context of fetish practices that revolve around dominance and submission.
The fact that Pascal pretends not to know this meaning only makes him more likeable. As if all this stuff on Twitter and Instagram was new technical territory for him and he was just happy to be there. Just like a real daddy.
