Pedro Pascal calls Ari Aster’s new film Eddington A story filled with “all our worst fears” in today’s world, especially the world after Kovid-19.
At the Cannes Press event 2025, 50-year-old Chilean-American actor, along with filmmaker Aster and actor Joaquin Phoenix, discussed how the film deals with Maga Culture and Donald Trump.
For the unwarterized, Eddington is about what happened after Covid from the emergence of social media to how black life cases affected the country.
The movie follows Crusty Sheriff Joe Cross, played by Phoenix, who decides to go against the city’s mayor, Ted Garcia, played by Pascal, but things don’t go in his favor, so he tries to go to deal with the situation on his own.
At the event, Pascal was asked how the film’s policy connected to the Trump era, which he replied, “It is very scary to participate in a movie that speaks to questions like this; it is far too scary a question to me to address. I am not informed enough. I want people to be safe and protective. I want to be very much to be on the right side of the story.”
He continued, “I felt like [Aster] Wrote something that was all our worst fears as this lockdown experience was already a breaking community. This built against an unbound feeling of reality and there is a point of not going back. I was overwhelmed by this fear and it is wonderful that it was confirmed by Ari. “
Aster talked about the film by saying, “I wrote this film in a state of fear and anxiety. I would try to retire and show what it feels like to live in a world where no one can agree on what is real.”
“I feel like for the past 20 years, we have fallen in this age with hyperindividualism, and the social strength that used to be central to liberal mass democracies, which is an agreed thing in the world that is gone now.
It is relevant to mention that Eddington released in cinemas on July 18, 2025.
