{"id":264335,"date":"2025-11-01T05:37:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T05:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/264335\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T05:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T05:37:09","slug":"leslie-jones-called-pedro-pascal-wrong-name-at-snl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/264335\/","title":{"rendered":"Leslie Jones called Pedro Pascal wrong name at ‘SNL’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leslie Jones<\/a> had a comically bad time learning Pedro Pascal<\/a>‘s name.\n<\/p>\n

The former Saturday Night Live<\/a> cast member, who was part of the big SNL50 anniversary special<\/a> in February, recalls meeting the Last of Us actor as one of her favorite moments from the experience. If only she could have remembered his name when they met.\n<\/p>\n

The special as a whole was “everything,” she said.<\/p>\n

“And Pedro, is it Pedro?” she asked on Vulture’s Good One podcast<\/a>, still struggling with his name. “Let me tell you, [I] called him Pablo until he told me his name is Pedro. So, I was like, ‘Pablo, Pablo.’ And he was like, ‘Pedro.’ And I was like, ‘Pablo.’ He’s like, ‘Pedro.’ And I was like, ‘Who the f\u2014 is Pedro?’ And he was like, ‘That’s my name.'”\n<\/p>\n

That finally convinced her.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

“I was like, ‘Oh, okay. I’ll call you Pedro. Even though Pablo’s better,'” she said before laughing.\n<\/p>\n

“He’s so cute, too,” the comedian added.\n<\/p>\n

Leslie Jones, Tracy Morgan, and Eddie Murphy during a ‘Black Jeopardy’ sketch on ‘SNL50: The Anniversary Special’ on Feb. 16, 2025.<\/p>\n

Chris Haston\/NBC via Getty<\/p>\n

Jones, who was a regular on the NBC sketch series from 2014 to 2019, was one of the dozens of former cast members who descended on Studio 8H for the epic evening. She took part in a “Black Jeopardy” sketch along with fellow alums Eddie Murphy, Tracy Morgan, and Chris Rock, and longtime cast member Kenan Thompson.\n<\/p>\n

Pascal, who hosted the sketch show in 2023, was one of the many celebrities who were part of the night’s list of non-cast performers, which also included the likes of Scarlett Johansson, who happens to be the wife of “Weekend Update” cohost Colin Jost, and 10-time host Tom Hanks.\n<\/p>\n

Pascal joined the fun as part of the “Domingo: Vow Renewal” sketch<\/a>, featuring Marcello Hern\u00e1ndez<\/a>‘s recurring character. Pascal and Bad Bunny played the lothario’s hot brothers. Sabrina Carpenter and SNL alums Kyle Mooney, Beck Bennett, Andy Samberg, Martin Short, and Molly Shannon were also part of the sketch alongside several current cast members.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Pascal told Entertainment Weekly<\/a> in March that the night had been “my nightmare of karaoke,” because it required him to sing.\n<\/p>\n

“I was the first record scratch of the night by missing my cues like three times in a row,” the Mandalorian star scolded himself about coming in at the wrong time.\n<\/p>\n

“I remember thinking, ‘F—! I f—ed it up!'” Pascal said. “I was really, really upset with myself for missing the cues. I feel like there was a cognitive and auditory failure on my part where I was so nervous I really couldn’t hear what was happening or what the cue was. I guess no matter what kind of singing and how bad or funny it’s supposed to be, I have just sheer terror of having to sing in any kind of capacity.”\n<\/p>\n

Let’s just blame that one on Pablo.<\/p>\n

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