{"id":33419,"date":"2025-07-24T09:45:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T09:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/33419\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T09:45:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T09:45:11","slug":"pedro-pascal-vows-never-again-to-go-clean-shaven-after-his-appalling-wonder-woman-1984-appearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/33419\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedro Pascal vows never again to go clean-shaven after his \u2018appalling\u2019 Wonder Woman 1984 appearance"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Pedro Pascal<\/a> was so dismayed by the way he looked in Wonder Woman<\/a> 1984 that he decided never to go clean-shaven again. <\/p>\n

The Fantastic Four: First Steps<\/a> star played villain Maxwell Lord in the DC Comics<\/a> film released in 2020. In the movie, directed by Patty Jenkins<\/a>, Pascal is seen without his trademark facial hair. <\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI grow such s*** facial hair, but if I were to shave it all off\u2026 I really look very [awful]. Strongly disagree with a clean shaven me,\u201d the 50-year-old told LADBible<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was so appalled by the way I look in Wonder Woman 1984. I loved the movie, but I was so appalled by the way that I looked that I never have gone back, unless it were completely necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Pedro<\/p>\n

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Pedro Pascal as Maxwell Lord in \u2018Wonder Woman 1984\u2019 (\u00a9 2018 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.)<\/p>\n

The Game of Thrones star added that he would\u2019ve shaved for his role as Reed Richards in the Fantastic Four film if he were asked to, but noted that it was a \u201cvery collaborative creation for all of our looks in the movie\u201d.<\/p>\n

Pascal\u2019s portrayal of Reed Richards with a moustache has sparked a mild backlash from superhero purists who point to the fact that his character traditionally does not have facial hair in the comics. <\/p>\n

Speaking to Vanity Fair<\/a>, the star said: \u201cI\u2019m more aware of [the] disgruntlement around my casting than anything I\u2019ve ever done: \u2018He\u2019s too old. He\u2019s not right. He needs to shave.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n

According to Wonder Woman 1984\u2019s costume designer, Lindy Hemming, Pascal\u2019s appearance in the film was partly inspired by Donald Trump\u2019s looks in the 1980s<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s helpful to look at Donald Trump, isn\u2019t it?\u201d Hemming told CBR<\/a> at the time. \u201cThere is something about the period of Donald Trump and being a businessman, isn\u2019t there, of being rather sleazy, a little bit, and a bit goofy [in the] hair and a lot of talk. So that\u2019s why he\u2019s there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jenkins, meanwhile, has suggested that Trump served as just one of a number of inspirations for the character.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s one of them,\u201d Jenkins told Screen Rant<\/a>. \u201cI mean honestly, the funny thing is he is [an influence], but […] I don\u2019t want to get political, it\u2019s not about being political.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Pedro<\/p>\n

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Pedro Pascal in \u2018The Fantastic Four: First Steps\u2019 (\u00a9 2025 20th Century Studios \/ \u00a9 and \u2122 2025 MARVEL)<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, The Fantastic Four: First Steps has opened to mostly positive early reactions<\/a> from fans. In a three-star review<\/a>, The Independent\u2019s Clarisse Loughrey said that while the set designs are a \u201cspace-age dream\u201d, the film jerks around far more than it needs to with dialogue disintegrating too much into \u201cunfunny banter\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,206],"class_list":["post-33419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}