TO Peter Pascal was invited this recent weekend to Saturday Night Live, the iconic program with humorously strange situations, parodies and sarcastic jokes in which the interpreter of Joel from The Last of Us he became nothing more and nothing less than Mario.
The plumber and greatest figure of Nintendo is today a character clearly related to the actor Chris Pratt, who plays Star-Lord in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU, for its acronym in English) and who will provide his voice for the next film from Super Mario from Illumination. However, due to his physical resemblance, Pascal gave life to the adventurer of the Mushroom Kingdom on SNL.
And it’s not that the Chilean actor lacks interpretations of pop and geek culture on his resume. As he recalls a report published on the website of gizmodowe already saw him as Obery Martell in Game of Thrones, a role that brought him to stardom, he is Din Djarin, the Mandalorian in the Star Wars series, and now he shines as Joel Miller in The Last of Us.
Pedro Pascal as Mario
On the night of this Saturday, February 4, Pascal presented Saturday Night Live and in one of the sketches played Mario in an adaptation of Nintendo’s Mario Kart.
Instead of escorting Ellie across the country, Mario was to take Princess Peach (Chloe Fineman) down the Rainbow Path while Bowser (Kenan Thompson) chased her.
“HBO is adapting another iconic game”, wrote the SNL Twitter account that shared the video of the adaptation.
Interestingly, this Nintendo version of The Last of Us explains that Goombas are sentient fungi, the cast has Bowen Yang as Yoshi, among other actors, and Pedro Pascal as Mario is very good. It’s not like we’re throwing a dart at Chris Pratt, but Pascal’s “It’s me, Mario” is emphatically better.r.
