Every Sunday night, fans of Pedro Pascal can tune in to HBO to watch the Chilean actor star as the stoic, sexy, reluctant father figure Joel in The Last Of Us. But on TikTok, weekly episodes aren’t enough — stanning Pascal is a full-time gig. Fans on the app have crowned 47-year-old Pascal the “daddy of the moment” in the only way it knows how: inundating For You pages everywhere with fan edits. Also known as fancams, edits usually take videos of a popular actor and smash them together into a short but heavily edited clip full of transitions, filters, and of course, a rousing backing track. While edits can be used to convey a variety of emotions, their most popular forms usually serve one purpose: a thirst trap.
And if there is one thing people on TikTok can agree on, it’s that Pedro Pascal is smoking hot. The hashtag #pedropascaledit has over 654.2 million views on the app, with most of the top 100 viewed edits posted within the last month alone. But in a sea of imitators, one edit has risen above them all: a video from TikTok user @dvcree made from clips of Pascal’s role as Agent Whiskey in Kingsman 2: The Golden Circle.
“How would you like to ride home on a real cowboy? Pascal (as Whiskey) croons in the edit. “I got a six-pack of cold ones on ice, and my roomie’s out all night, so you can scream my name as loud as you need to sugar!” As the dialogue ends, heavily filtered clips of Pascal in the film slam on the screen to the sultry backing of Shaggy’s “Hey Sexy Lady.”
Since it was posted on Jan. 20, the video has been viewed 16.4 million times, liked 2.3 million times, and — in one of the biggest signs of thirst success on TikTok — has been saved 800,000 times. @dvcree’s video is no longer another Pedro Pascal edit. It’s THE Pedro Pascal edit.
So Rolling Stone tracked down @dvcree, the creator of the edit, to talk about why gen z is so obsessed with fan edits and why Pedro Pascal will always be daddy.
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While much of the Pascal thirst is centered around American media, @dvcree, one of Pascal’s biggest fans, is actually a 21-year-old student from Sweden named Sandra. She tells Rolling Stone that a lot of Pascal’s sex appeal comes from his real-life kindness and love for the LGBTQ+ community — Pascal is a huge supporter of his transgender sister Lux — which makes it easier for people to stan him.
“There’s just something about him,” Sandra says. “His vibe is very chill. But he’s active and supportive of the LGBTQ+ community. He’s very open about it. And being a part of the community myself, I feel like that’s really important. It feels really good because that means your favorite celebrity supports you as well. He’s older, and he’s mature, and he’s very attractive. He is just, daddy.”
According to Sandra, she had no idea that the edit would reach so many people. In fact, she says she was expecting the video to flop, mostly because Pascal’s appearance in Kingsman is one of his lesser-known roles.
“Dvcree started a revolution like….” one comment reads. It’s been liked 20,000 times.
In one video, two friends silently flash each other the edit through their car windows.
“No, because why have we all seen that ONE EDIT,’ said popular creators Alex and Pablo in a TikTok of them recreating the fancam word for word.
And while Sandra isn’t certain, it’s possible the edit also inspired a recent skit on Saturday Night Live, where a hosting Pascal, playing a high school teacher, begs his students to stop making fan edits of him.
