The Pedro Pascal Look-alike Contest Winner Is the Best Look-alike Contest Winner

While every Hollywood studio claws at Pedro Pascal to join its new film, one family in Greenpoint, New York City, can now confidently say, “We have Pedro Pascal at home.” George Gountas, a 42-year-old Brooklyn father who attended a Pedro Pascal look-alike contest this weekend in the Lower East Side, took home $50 and a year’s supply of burritos from Son del North for impersonating the star of Game of Thrones and The Last of Us.

“It’s funny, because he’s not on social media at all,” Gountas’s wife, Jenny Gania, told the New York Post. “Now he’s going to be everywhere.” Gountas is a lighting designer for Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, though he said that he doesn’t recall Pascal every appearing as a guest during his tenure. Pascal himself eventually saw the event on an Instagram post, commenting, “👨🏻👨🏻👨🏻👨🏻👨🏻🥹❤️.”

I must say that out of all the winners of these look-alike contests recently, Gountas looks the most like his intended celebrity target so far. (You still might need to squint a little.) After Timothée Chalamet arrived at his own look-alike contest in Washington Square Park in October, the craze led every man in his 30s to imagine that he looked like Jeremy Allen White or Glen Powell. But take one look at the look-alike contest winners for Tom Holland or Miles Teller and you might wonder if anyone even really knows what celebrities really look like at all. (Personally, I’m much more in love with the Shrek look-alike contest variations).

In Gountas’s case? Well, he’s truly the Luigi to Pascal’s Mario.

“My wife was so freaked out when he got killed [on Game of Thrones]. She’s like, ‘I can’t watch this. I feel like the guy is crushing your head,’ ” Gountas joked in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. “I look more like him than I look like my own brother.”

What’s next, a Baby Yoda look-alike contest?