Pedro Pascal lookalike winner looks more like Pedro Pascal than Pedro Pascal

Pedro Pascal lookalike winner looks more like Pedro Pascal than Pedro Pascal
At first glance, it might appear like Pedro Pascal crashed his own lookalike contest in New York City over the weekend.
Not that Pascal needed the $50 and year of free burritos that made up the grand prize or anything, but with Marvel's The Fantastic Four: First Steps set to hit theaters next month, it wouldn't have been surprising if Pedro was doing some fun promotion work.
Nope. Not the case. The truth is the actual Pedro Pascal lookalike winner looked so much like Pedro Pascal that, well, we had to convince ourselves he is not, in fact, Pedro Pascal. The winner, Pedro No. 5, is better known as George Gountas.
Entertainment Weekly notes Gountas does have some experience in the industry — he's serves as a lighting director for The Daily Show as well as providing the same services for stand-up specials featuring Trevor Noah, Ramy Youssef, Pete Davidson, and Chris Rock. But his uncanny resemblance to Pascal became pretty hard to ignore over the past few years.
Per the New York Post:
'It started when the 'Game of Thrones' came out the first time — that's when we first heard it,' Gountas' wife, Jenny Gania, said of people noticing her hubby's likeness to the 50-year-old Chilean-born actor, who famously starred as bounty hunter Din Djarin in 'The Mandalorian.'
'Then some kids started noting it, too, so I was like, when we saw this [contest], I was like, 'It's Father's Day. You have to go. It's going to be your Father's Day treat,' ' Gania said she told her husband. 'It's funny, because he's not on social media at all. But now he's going to be everywhere."
The competition featured 30 Pedros and was organized Son Del North chef and co-owner Annisha Garcia, who got the idea after Pascal infamously bashed New York's Mexican food scene during a 2023 appearance on Hot Ones.
Obviously the only thing left to do is put the Timothée Chalamet, Glen Powell, Jeremy Allen White and Pedro Pascal doppelgängers in a movie and see what happens.

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