Ever since he confirmed up as Oberyn Martell in Recreation of Thrones, Pedro Pascal’s rise to stardom has been fairly enjoyable to see, as a result of he’s simply good in mainly every part he’s in, even when that factor itself is a scorching mess. And because the star of each The Mandalorian and HBO’s new status hit The Final of Us, it’s clear that folk wanna see Pedro Pascal be a gruff gunslinging mentor, which makes Saturday Evening Reside’s latest skit type of good.

Pascal hosted final night time’s episode, and one of many skits had him play Mario in a status model of Nintendo’s Mario Kart sequence. As an alternative of escorting Ellie throughout the nation, he’s received to take Princess Peach (Chloe Fineman) throughout Rainbow Street as Bowser (Kenan Thompson) hunts her down. Sure, it’s actually a Nintendo reskin of Final of Us, proper all the way down to explaining the Goombas as being sentient fungus, however it’s additionally fairly humorous, and simply goofy sufficient to work.

Seeing the Mario forged reimagined as “complicated, dramatic HBO characters” is fairly humorous—”complicated” for Toad and Yoshi (Bowen Yang) simply means “I’m bisexual”—and it helps that Pascal as Mario is…really fairly good? He doesn’t do a goofy accent, however he’s mainly enjoying him like he would Joel and being fully severe about it. (His “It’s-a me, Mario” might be the perfect dramatic model we’re ever going to get of that line.) Perhaps along with that animated film coming in a few months, Nintendo may get to work on a live-action Mario film the place he’s Mario and Charlie Day is Luigi? Maybe we may additionally get him to tug double obligation as Wario.

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