In a roundtable interview with several actors for The Hollywood Reporter, The Mandalorian’s Pedro Pascal answered Succession’s Kieran Culkin question about only providing the voice the titular character and he responded, “For a lot of it, yeah.”
This is how Pascal responded to Culkin’s question: –
Pedro, you have two shows, The Last of Us and The Mandalorian. Presumably, you don’t always have to be present for The Mandalorian?
PASCAL Correct.
That can just be voiceover?
CULKIN Is that true?
PASCAL For a lot of it, yeah.
CULKIN Really? I thought that was you. I kept thinking, “That guy’s really good.” It’s all a lie! (Laughter.)
PASCAL Now you know he’s better.
CULKIN Let’s get him here. (Laughter.)
PASCAL There was an extended amount of experimentation, being in the suit for a lot of it, and frankly, my body wasn’t up for the task as far as, like, the four months of it. But I was in it. I was in it a significant amount, an elastic amount (he pretends to tug at his neck, where the suit would chafe). But now we’ve figured it out, which is super cool, and amazingly, it gave me the opportunity to be able to go and do something else.
CULKIN That’s good. I have a question. Sorry, I’m curious. Do you ever watch and go, “I wouldn’t have done that”? Like, “He leaned on the thing, and that’s not [how I’d do it].” Do you ever have the sense of ownership of, “I should have been in the suit,” or are you like, “No, this is good”?
PASCAL I think it’s great. (Laughter.)
CULKIN Great. I’m not trying to be a dick …
PASCAL No, I do. I think that there are things that you have to let go of in terms of what can be an OCD level of attention to detail because, you know …
BRIDGES Because we’re part of a collage.
PASCAL Yeah, exactly. But even so much as wanting your component of that to fit perfectly into the collage, you really have to give it all up.
The third season of The Mandalorian saw Din Djarin keep his helmet on, negating the need for Pascal to be on set and enabling him to do other work, just coming in to add his voice where needed. Instead, the role of The Mandalorian was played by Brendan Wayne and Lateef Crowder.
You can read the interview in full here. Watch Pascal and others as Din Djarin in The Mandalorian on Disney+ now.
