Sarah Paulson says she supported Pedro Pascal in the early days of his career

Sarah Paulson and Pedro Pascal have been friends for over three decades. Paulson recently opened up about the early days of their friendship and how she supported Pascal’s career.

The two reportedly first met in 1993 when Pascal came to New York City as a student at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.

At the time, Paulson was attending the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Manhattan. Her first big acting role was in an episode of ‘Law & Order’ in 1994, she later appeared in the Hallmark TV film ‘Friends at Last’ in 1995.

Paulson’s per diem

In a new interview with Esquire Paulson explains how she would sometimes give her friend Pascal money she made from acting so he could feed himself.

“He’s talked about this publicly, but there were times when I would give him my per diem from a job I was working on so that he could have money to feed himself,” Paulson told Esquire.

Enjoying movies together

“We would go to see movies all the time in those years,” Paulson said, “and we would get so lost in them. You can fill in the blanks about the why of that however you like, but I think there were things we wanted to escape mentally, emotionally, spiritually.”

After college, Pascal moved to Los Angeles to try to further his career as an actor. He landed work on ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer,’ ‘Touched by an Angel’ and ‘Undressed.’ However, the roles were not enough to pay the bills and be moved back to New York City in 2000.

“I died so many deaths,” Pascal said about this period of his life. “My vision of it was that if I didn’t have some major exposure by the time I was 29 years old, it was over, so I was constantly readjusting what it meant to commit my life to this profession, and giving up the idea of it looking like I thought it would when I was a kid. There were so many good reasons to let that delusion go.”

Newfound success

Paulson rejoiced over Pascal’s newfound success. Pedro is currently the lead of two majorly successful television series, HBO’s ‘The Last of Us’ and Disney’s ‘The Mandalorian.’

“You just want him to succeed,” Paulson said. “And that to me, I feel like, is the sign of a major movie star. I’m ready for him to take the reins from the guys from romantic comedies past, like Bruce Willis and Mel Gibson and all these guys. He can be all that. Let’s remake ‘Die Hard’ with Pedro. Remake all the ‘Lethal Weapon’ movies with Pedro.”