Pedro Pascal is calling the new Ari Aster movie Eddington A story full of “all our worst fears” in today’s world, especially the world after Covid-19.
In the 2025 Cannes Press event, the 50-year-old Chilean-American actor, along with the filmmaker Aster and actor Joaquin Phoenix, discussed how the film deals with the culture of Maga and Donald Trump.
For not versed, Eddington This is what happened after Covid, from the emergence of social networks to how black lives matter affected the country.
The film follows the crispy sheriff Joe Cross, played by Phoenix, who decides to go against the mayor of the city, Ted García, played by Pascal, but things are not in their favor, so he tries to handle the situation on his own.
In the event, Pascal was asked how the film’s policy was connected with Trump’s era, to which he replied: “It is very scary to participate in a film that talks to topics like this; a question is too intimidating to address. I am not sufficiently informed. I want people to be safe and protective. I want a lot to be on the right side of the story.”
He continued: “I felt like [Aster] He wrote something that was all our worst fears, since that blockade experience was already a fracturing society. This was being built towards a sense of reality without binding, and there is a point of not returning. I felt overwhelmed by that fear, and it is wonderful that it was confirmed by Ari. “
Aster talked about the movie saying: “I wrote this film in a state of fear and anxiety. I wanted to try to withdraw and show what it feels like to live in a world where no one can agree on what is real.”
“I feel that during the last 20 years we have fallen into this era of hyperindividualism and that social force that used to be central in liberal masses democracies, which is a thing agreed in the world, which has been gone now. Covid felt like the time when that link was finely cut for good,” he said.
It is pertinent to mention that Eddington It will be launched in theaters on July 18, 2025.
