Pedro Pascal Forgot He Was Cast In The Last Of Us | The Graham Norton Show

were you familiar with the game I didn't know about the game before I got the job and then I got the job and I found out very quickly about the game it's a very famous video game yeah I've heard that um you haven't played The Last of Us no I needed it needed to be explained to me um but when I when I when I got the job I I uh I was very familiar with HBO I was very familiar with Craig Mason who created uh Chernobyl yeah and uh but I called my sister who's

got two teenage boys uh uh and I was on speakers when she answered she was dropping them off at school and she's like what's going on and I said well there's this job offer and uh uh or opportunity um that uh it's based actually on a video game and uh Bruno and pedador my nephew's names and they're like what is it I was like it's called the LA The Last of Us you better get that job you talk about getting that job at your experience of getting that job quite hazy I think yeah I was

in London I was in London okay okay so it all happened very very quickly it was a very strange thing where it was read the scripts talk to Craig uh uh us and then you know it was getting later and later at night and uh was shooting in London at the time and uh they needed me to stay up late to meet the creator of the video game and the executive producer Carolyn Strauss who was on Game of Thrones and um to continue kind of like you know convincing trying to convince them to hire me

for the job and um by the time it was all said and done it was late and uh I uh I took a an Ambien a sleeping sleeping tablet that's that's strong to go to bed yeah because I knew that I needed to because I was at that point I was kind of hyped up yeah you know what the next day but yeah and I was excited about the the prospect so they called me and to tell me that I had gotten the job but I'd already taken the tablet because I really didn't think I

thought that I would at least have to wait until the next day you know and um okay yeah I remember actually that's cool yeah yeah I was like oh my God and then like a couple of minutes on the call went by apparently and I was like so what's up did you did I get the job what what are you talking about we called you we told you you got the job and I was like oh I did what's it and I was like oh I took a tablet I thought that completely woke up in

the morning it was all like oh my god did I get the job hey they're in L.A I'm in London so I'm gonna be waiting by the phone and everything and and and I I had gotten the job I'm surprised you kept the job [Music]