We just saw Pedro Pascal and Jennifer Aniston out to dinner together, and I agree in thinking there’s zero going on romantically between the two. Aside from the fact they were part of a larger group of friends, I just don’t see those two as an item. And I’m not just saying that as a longtime swooning admirer of Pedro’s. (I’m not!) If anything, the biggest love vibe I get from Pedro is with his career. Not in an egotistical way, but the genuine love and deep gratitude of an actor who kept showing up for years until something (Game of Thrones) finally broke his way. He works so much now it’s amazing we’re not sick of him. (I’m not!) Next up for Pedro is season two of The Last of Us, which begins April 13 on HBO. Pedro just appeared on Jimmy Kimmel to promote the show (wearing a t-shirt that said “Adult Content,” the man is out to kill us, I swear) and Jimmy asked about a two-year-old photo of Pedro that outed his go-to Starbucks order: six shots of espresso!
It’s been over two years since Pedro Pascal’s Starbucks coffee order went viral online, and he’s finally speaking out about it.
If you didn’t see, in March of 2023, a video of Pedro holding his Starbucks drink drew a ton of comments, because the sticker on the plastic cup revealed exactly what he ordered.
He was drinking an iced quad espresso in a venti cup with extra ice and six shots.
At the time, fans figured out that he was likely consuming around 384 mg of caffeine with this drink, at around 64 mg per shot.
Now, he’s speaking out about his morning brew.
On Jimmy Kimmel Live, Pedro said of his coffee order going viral, “I cannot begin to tell you how violating this was!”
“There’s so much context to why it has become six shots of espresso. It was always a quad but then I feel like the cups got bigger and, I don’t know, the shots got less strong. At some point, it became six,” he said. “It was an incredibly private morning ritual that I never wanted anyone to know about.”
“You sip it and you get really high, and you answer emails and stuff,” he added, noting that he doesn’t drink any additional coffee besides this drink.
Holy heart rate, Mister Fantastic! No really, have Pedro’s doctors weighed in on his daily caffeine consumption? Because it’s nearly the same amount as Dakota Johnson was unwittingly imbibing when she was downing two energy drinks a day (and then not sleeping at night). I’m not judging, I just care! This daily habit doesn’t sound sustainable, which in itself is incompatible with my need to have Pedro around for a very long life. I will say, though, the context of his super-charged caffeine high does add a new element to Pedro’s “psycho” (his word, not mine) technique for learning lines. Last year Pedro revealed he writes out the first letter of each word of his dialogue, resulting in handwritten notes that look like a copycat Zodiac Killer in training (my words, not his). Now I’m picturing Pedro sitting at the Starbucks, sipping his iced hypertension-in-a-cup, and setting to work on his coded scripts, possibly/probably freaking out staff and other onlookers in the process.
Anyway, I’m sorry Pedro felt violated during his deeply private ritual… at a Starbucks. So here’s a tip from one iced coffee drinker — no espresso at all for me; cream & sweetener — to another: I always peel the order-identifying sticker off the cup first thing, before I even take a sip. (What, me paranoid?)
pedro put the 6 shots of espresso on ice DOWN pic.twitter.com/q4WqDO77Oq
— jesse (@bIuesykes) February 17, 2023
Photos credit: Xavier Collin/Image Press Agency/Avalon