Bella Ramsey Says Pedro Pascal’s ‘Daddy’ Nickname Has ‘Gone Too Far’

Bella Ramsey suspects the Internet’s “daddy” fetishization of Last of Us co-star Pedro Pascal has worn out its welcome.

At some point after Pascal made his debut as Joel to Ramsey’s Ellie on the HBO hit — and of course, concurrent with his ongoing run as Grogu’s Mandalorian guardian — he was dubbed a (ahem) “daddy” by the Internet, to a degree that he is frequently asked to weigh in on the nickname on red carpets (the very worst, thirsty example here) and in interviews.

Ramsey, in a new Vanity Fair interview, says, “I very much played into it at the beginning, but now I’m worried it’s gone too far.

“I don’t know whether [Pedro]’s still loving it; I need to ask him.” Ramsey adds. “He’s a global phenomenon as he should be, because he’s pretty spectacular.”

Pascal himself, during a recent Hollywood Reporter roundtable with peers Jeff Bridges, Evan Peters and Kieran Culkin, saw the discussion about their Emmy-worthy craft detoured by an inquiry into his “daddy” persona.

“Yeah, I am having fun with it…,” he said, speculating that the online discourse was spawned by his parental roles on both The Mandalorian and now The Last of Us. (Pascal himself has no children IRL.)

“It seems a little role-related, I think,” he posited. “There was a period where the Mandalorian is very daddy to baby Grogu. Joel is very daddy to Ellie. These are daddy parts. That’s what it is.”

Weeks prior to said roundtable, Pascal, bless him, refused to read some “daddy”-related “thirst tweets” when asked to do so on a red carpet by Access Hollywood; watch/cringe below:

this is the worst thing I’ve ever seen pic.twitter.com/7npzBOqCxk

— lauren (@djarinluck) March 1, 2023

Are you (more than) ready for Pascal’s “daddy” nickname to be retired?