Why does everyone love Pedro Pascal? The internet has (a lot) to say

“If you don’t want to see this Pedro Pascal movie, we can watch the other Pedro Pascal movie, and if you don’t like it, we can watch this other Pedro Pascal movie,” says an audio clip that has gone viral on TikTok.

And yes, the Chilean actor currently occupies a large part of the billboards: Fantastic Four, Amores Materialistas, and Eddington. Many are grateful for this, but others simply wonder, “But what do they see in Pedro Pascal?”
And Pedro Pascal is one of those extraordinary cases where the admiration of the audience, critics, and the algorithm tend to agree. Below, we explain why everyone loves him.

The Pedro Pascal phenomenon, especially from the perspective of the ‘female gaze,’ has been widely discussed on social media.

TikToker Mara Antonieta has contributed to this conversation by highlighting certain aspects that make him so attractive to a female audience.

Unlike the ‘male gaze,’ which often objectifies and sexualizes, the ‘female gaze’ values a man’s ability to show emotion, vulnerability, and tenderness.

“He’s an unusual modern sex symbol, outside the norm. Because objectively speaking, we have many other examples, conventionally speaking, of what would be considered a ‘perfect man.’ The classic cliché example that any man you ask will give is his lord and master Superman, Henry Cavill… I find it curious that all men take him as the example of what a man should be, of what women should like,” the TikToker said in a video.

Marie Antoinette, like many other content creators, agrees that what makes Pedro Pascal so attractive is his “available emotional energy” and “not so much how he looks, but how he makes us feel.”