Pedro Pascal becomes Mario in new Saturday Night Live sketch

Ever since he appeared as Oberyn Martell in Game of Thrones, Pedro Pascal’s rise to fame was pretty fun to watch because he’s just good at just about everything he does, even if it’s on its own. hot mess. And like the star of both The Mandalorian and a new HBO prestige hit Last of us, it is clear that people want to see Pedro Pascal as a rough shooting mentor, which makes Saturday night live the newest parody seems to be perfect.

Pascal hosted yesterday’s episode and in one skit he played Mario in a prestige version of a Nintendo game. Mario Kart row. Instead of escorting Ellie across the country, he must guide Princess Peach (Chloe Fineman) through Rainbow Road while Bowser (Kenan Thompson) hunts her down. Yes, it’s literally a Nintendo reskin The last of us, to the point of explaining Goomba as a sentient mushroom, but it’s also pretty funny and stupid enough to work.

Seeing Mario the cast, reimagined as “complicated, dramatic HBO characters”, is pretty funny – “complex” to Toad and Yoshi (Bowen Young) just means “I’m bisexual” – and it helps that Pascal as Mario… actually quite good? He doesn’t have a goofy accent, but he basically plays with it like Joel and takes it completely seriously. (His “It’s me, Mario” is probably the best dramatic version of that line we’ve ever gotten.) Perhaps in addition to this animated movie coming out in a couple of months, Nintendo could get to work on a live game. . -action Mario a movie where he is Mario and Charlie Day is Luigi? Perhaps we could also have him fill the dual role of Wario.

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