Pedro Pascal on Learning Cello for ‘Behemoth!,’ Why ‘You’ve Got to Eat S—’ to Make It in Hollywood and the ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ Line His Character Says

Oct 23, 2026 11:13am PT Pedro Pascal on Learning Cello for ‘Behemoth!,’ Why ‘You’ve Got to Eat S—’ to Make It in Hollywood and the ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ Line His Character Says

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“If you could hear it, you would think I was killing an animal.”

That’s Pedro Pascal on his cello playing, more than a year after he started lessons for a movie that hadn’t been greenlit yet. The star first had lunch with Tony Gilroy in late July 2025 about taking on the lead role of his latest movie, “Behemoth!.” But even before anything was signed, and before he knew whether the project would hold together, Pascal went straight to cellists Timothy Loo and Charlie Tyler and got to work.

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