Bella Ramsey was ‘worried’ about Pedro Pascal’s ‘daddy’ label (Getty Images)
The Last of Us star Bella Ramsey has explained why they were ‘worried’ about Pedro Pascal being labelled the ‘internet’s daddy’.
Arguably currently the biggest movie star on the planet, Pedro Pascal is the face of both Marvel in the upcoming The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Star Wars in The Mandalorian and, of course, the recently dispatched Joel Miller from HBO’s The Last of Us.
And while fans love him for his acting prowess, as well as his fierce LGBTQ+ allyship (which includes partying with Honey Dijon, ‘protecting the dolls‘ and calling out J.K. Rowling), he is, to many, simply their dream daddy.
‘Daddy’ here means something very extra-familial, instead referring to an older, handsome, muscular man that one can imagine being both protective and dominant, rather than one’s father.
And Pedro Pascal is daddy-in-chief, according to the internet – but Ramsey, who stars as Ellie Williams in the post-apocalyptic survival series with Pascal, isn’t thrilled
“I felt worried for him. I want to protect him from that whole joke of becoming the internet’s daddy,” they told Vanity Fair as part of Pascal’s cover shoot. “I was like, ‘I don’t want everyone to refer to you as that and see you as that. You’re so much more’.”
Pascal did dish his thoughts on the matter with trademark charm in 2023, when he said that he was never going to be our daddy (RIP) – but, to be fair, that was after he said that he was our “cool, slutty daddy”.
Ramsey, who identifies as non-binary, chimed in shortly after that, saying that the Pedro Pascal ‘daddy’ discourse had “gone too far“, which no-one really seemed to heed.
Pascal will next be seen as the Marvel CInematic Universe’s Reed Richards/ Mister Fantastic in The Fantastic Four: First Steps – where he will actually be playing a daddy (by which we mean an actual father).
Reed and Vanessa Kirby’s Sue Storm/ Invisible Woman will parent a baby bundle of super-powered joy named Franklin Richards, who could come in super-useful against the super-bad Galactus.
The Fantastic Four: First Steps hits cinemas 25 July, 2025.
