“You just want him to succeed,” she says of her longtime friend.

Pedro Pascalopened up about the difficult early days of his acting career.

He returned to New York around 2000 and continued the grind of auditions.

Sarah Paulson and Pedro Pascal attend the 22nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at The Shrine Auditorium on January 30, 2016 in Los Angeles, California.

Sarah Paulson and Pedro Pascal.Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images

“I died so many deaths,” Pascal said of that period.

There were so many good reasons to let that delusion go."

“You just want him to succeed.

Pedro Pascal and Grogu on ‘The Mandalorian’

Pedro Pascal and Grogu on ‘The Mandalorian’.Lucasfilm Ltd.

And that to me, I feel like, is the sign of a major movie star.

TheAmerican Horror Storystar recently made a surprise appearanceduringPascal’sSaturday Night Livehosting debutin February that poked fun at his daddy status.

Pascal played a popular high school teacher flabbergasted by TikTok fancams.

Paulson played another teacher, dubbed the mommy to Pascal’s daddy.

I’m mommy,” she said in the sketch.

“No crumbs left.”