Pedro Pascal look-alike's wife demands to meet the real actor after he wins contest

The Pedro Pascal look-alike winner has a plea for the real Pedro Pascal.
Brooklyn dad George Gountas appeared on Tuesday's episode of 'The Daily Show,' where he works as a lighting designer, and spoke to host Jon Stewart about his big victory at the look-alike contest — including his wife Jenny Gania's reaction.
'Her position is, 'I'm cool with you getting all this attention, if I can meet Pedro Pascal,'' Gountas, 42, said.
9 George Gountas won the Pedro Pascal look-alike contest on Sunday in New York City.
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9 Pedro Pascal at the 'Ballerina' film premiere in London on May 22.
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Gountas then looked directly at the camera and delivered a message to the 'Last Of Us' actor.
'Hey Pedro, this is Pedro #5 from New York,' Gountas said. 'It would be a great, great, great gift if you could meet my wife, Jenny. It would mean the world to her. We need to make this happen.'
As the audience cheered, Stewart told Gountas, 'I don't see how Pedro #1 could turn down Pedro #5.'
9 George Gountas talking about winning the contest on 'The Daily Show.'
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9 George Gountas beat out 30 people for the title, which came with $50 and a year's supply of burritos from the Son Del North Mexican restaurant.
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9 On 'The Daily Show,' Gountas said he didn't expect to win the contest.
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On Father's Day, Gountas won the Pedro Pascal look-alike contest at the Lower East Side's Son Del North Mexican restaurant.
He beat out 30 other people for the title, which came with $50 and a year's supply of burritos from the eatery.
9 George Gountas is announced the winner of the Pedro Pascal look-alike contest.
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9 George Gountas had not even reserved a spot in the competition.
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Gountas' wife told The Post that he was first told about his resemblance to Pascal when 'Game of Thrones' came out. Pascal portrayed Oberyn Martell in the hit HBO series.
'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 recalled to The Post.
'It's funny,' she added, 'because he's not on social media at all. But now he's going to be everywhere.'
9 Pedro Pascal in a selfie posted on June 11.
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On 'The Daily Show,' Gountas said he didn't expect to win the contest when he arrived without even having reserved a spot.
'I rolled up and I'm like, 'Yo, I'm here,'' he told Stewart. 'And they were like, 'You're going to win.''
9 George Gountas at the contest in the Lower East Side on June 15.
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The Greenpoint resident also said that the attention he's gotten from winning the contest has been 'f—ing insane.'
'So, none of this bothers me,' Gountas added. 'I've been in the industry for many years. I've been around famous people.'
'But the thing that I was most, not scared of, the most uneasy about, was coming here today,' he admitted to Stewart, who said the staff of the Comedy Central show have been 'going bananas' about the contest.

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