Pedro Pascal has claimed that he didn’t want to smack Joaquin Phoenix in the face while making their new film but was convinced into doing it by his co-star.
The two actors star opposite one another in Hereditary director Ari Aster’s new black comedy Eddington. The film, which takes place in a fictional New Mexico town, is set during the Covid-19 pandemic and focuses on a showdown between Phoenix’s bumbling right-wing sheriff, Joe Cross, and Pascal’s elitist liberal mayor, Ted Garcia.
