Matt Damon lavished praise on Pedro Pascal and shared his first impression of The Materialists star. Damon and his co-star Ben Affleck have been giving interviews while promoting their latest Netflix action-thriller, The Rip. Notably, The Rip also stars Teyana Taylor, Steven Yeun, and Sasha Calle, amongst others, and dropped on the streaming platform on January 16.
Matt Damon recalls first impression of this A-list actor
On The Howard Stern Show, Matt Damon revealed what his first impression of Pedro Pascal was. Damon was cast opposite Emily Blunt in the 2011 sci-fi romantic thriller, The Adjustment Bureau. Pascal also starred in the film as Maitre D’ Paul De Santo. Although he had a small part, Damon felt Pascal made a remarkable impression on the cast and audiences alike.
The Martian star shared, “I’ve done cameos and things, and it’s a very, very, very difficult thing to do.” He continued, “In fact, this is really interesting… I did a movie with Emily Blunt called The Adjustment Bureau, and we were shooting a scene in New York, and we came in, and there was this throwaway part of a maître d’ who sat us, and it got cut out of the movie.”
Damon recalled that he and Blunt watched some vital footage of the film and couldn’t take their eyes off Pascal, collectively gushing over him. The Rip star confessed, “But I remember Emily and I went and sat down and this maître d’ walked away, and they cut, and we both looked at each other, and Em goes, ‘That guy’s really f*****g good.’ And I said, ‘Yeah, what the f***?’”
Continuing further, he stated, “That guy was really good. There was something just incredibly interesting, but real and natural… And years later, I found out it was Pedro Pascal. Not even a day player with anything actually really to do. Just his presence, we both recognized it immediately. And it was Pedro.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Damon and Affleck gushed over their long-lasting friendship, their Oscar-winning film Good Will Hunting, and their new movie, The Rip. Not only that, the Odyssey star confessed that his wife, Luciana, thought Affleck was the “cute” one after watching Good Will Hunting.
Originally reported by Anwaya Mane for Mandatory.
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