Pedro Pascal 'forgot' he bagged role of Joel in The Last of Us

Pedro Pascal was seemingly so out of it that he had forgotten that he bagged the role of Joel in HBO's hit live-action series The Last of Us.

In an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon the Chilean actor shared how he hilariously landed the highly-appreciated character's role.

He revealed that he was working in London when he was scheduled a video call with showrunner Craig Mazin and video game creator, Neil Druckmann.

"I got sent these scripts and said - I was told that 'Craig Mazin wants you to read the scripts. And if you like them, he'd like to talk to you.' I loved Chernobyl. The miniseries that he -- show ran for HBO," Pascal said.

"And they were like, 'Will you stay up a little bit?' At this point, it was getting kind of late in London. 'To talk to Neil Druckmann, the creator of the video game.' Genius."

The call ended with Pascal being cast as Joel, and while it seemingly should have ended there the actor was so excited that he had to take a sleeping pill as it had gotten so late. 

"But I get a call, and I get told that I got the job after I took the Ambien..." adding that he was "excited, I guess, but I didn't remember."

The next day he had completely forgotten about the role, "The first thing that occurred to me, was like, 'Oh, man, I really want that job. And I'm in London. They're in LA. I'm going to wait by the phone all day long. This hasn't happened in a while, you know. I'm going to be longing. And I'm going to think about it all day long.'"

He proceeded to check his phone where he realized the good news. "Oh yeah, I got the job."