Pedro Pascal has become one of Hollywood’s most popular and beloved figures, but his journey to this point couldn’t have been possible without his parents’ harrowing journey from their home country of Chile.
The “Last of Us” actor appeared on this week’s episode of the “Smartless” podcast, where he told the story in detail of how he and his family became political refugees in the ’70s after being forced to flee former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet’s rule.
He went on to say that a victim of a gunfight – one that his parents were not involved in – was taken to his home so his father, who was doing a residency at a local hospital, could help “tend to the wound.” His parents also agreed to “hide” the person “for a while.” “They came looking for my parents, and so then my parents had to go into hiding for about six months,” he said, adding that his parents eventually found a way to physically climb over the wall of the Venezuelan embassy in Santiago and “demand asylum.”Pascal and his family were granted asylum in Denmark before they immigrated to the United States. His parents raised him and his siblings in both Texas and Southern California.
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