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Pedro Pascal is going through an identity crisis. “On the street, I get either ‘Are you the Red Viper?’ or ‘Are you Javier Peña?’ ” he says. He is neither, but those two characters give a nice summary of the forty-one-year-old actor’s recent trajectory: first as Oberyn Martell, the bisexual heartthrob on HBO’s Game of Thrones, and now as the real-life DEA agent hunting Pablo Escobar on Netflix’s Narcos. “If anyone knows my name, they probably Googled me first,” Pascal says. When he arrives at the coffee shop in Chelsea’s High Line Hotel, Pascal is a little harried. He’s wearing a sweater from our photo shoot the week prior, and he suspects he left his phone at home. The Chilean-born, American-raised actor is in New York last minute between Chile and London, enduring a few travel-heavy weeks before his return to Bogotá. There he’ll shoot the third season of Narcos just as the series pivots: With Escobar dead (spoiler!), Pascal’s character confronts a new adversary, the Cali Cartel. “I have no idea what I’m allowed to say about the next season,” Pascal admits. “But then, you can look it up. All the major events, you can find them online.” Read more at Esquire.
