“Succession” actor Kieran Culkin channeled his inner Roman Roy when he won Sunday night’s Golden Globes, mocking fellow nominee Pedro Pascal from the stage of the Beverly Hilton.
And Pascal’s reaction to the air? A memefied version of himself.
When Culkin took the stage and took the award for male actor in a drama television series, he nervously exclaimed, “Oh, nightmare,” laughed at his own belch and “indigestion,” and joked that he had “already ruined it.” ” Culkin then seemed to veer his speech toward a healthier tone, admitting that despite having been nominated four other Globes (three for “Succession” and once in 2003 for the film “Igby Goes Down”), he said that He had “accepted that I was never going to be on this stage.”
“So this is a good time,” he said, looking down. Then she raised her head at Pascal and hurled his insult: “Suck it, Pedro.”
The audience laughed as Culkin grabbed his prize and sheepishly exclaimed, “Mine.”
As the laughter continued, broadcast cameras fixed on a close-up of Pascal, who wore a shoulder pad to the awards ceremony due to an apparent fall. His face went from laughter to a cartoonish scowl to a dramatic sob. The “Last of Us” and “Mandalorian” actor’s joke was likely a reference to his own meme, a GIF, which shows Pascal making the same dramatic transformation between joy and sorrow. The moment originated from a 2020 benefit reading series during which Pascal and other actors, including Paul Giamatti, virtually performed a reading of the play “I, My Ruin,” according to Know Your Meme.
During his press tour for HBO’s “The Last of Us,” Pascal produced a series of charming moments that went viral and became memes. And Pascal is aware of her Internet fame. In several interviews, he has openly talked about becoming the “daddy” or “Zaddy” of the Internet, a label that likely stems from his male sex appeal and his popular father characters, such as his roles as Joel and The Mandalorian. .
Culkin and Pascal even laughed about their various roles as parents during a Hollywood Reporter “Actors’ Roundtable” last year.
And at the Golden Globes, Pascal’s on-air memefication was as fleeting as the Internet itself, lasting just three seconds. But it managed to become a much-needed highlight at an awards show known as Hollywood’s Biggest Party, which almost ceased to exist just a few years ago.
Culkin’s win was one of four for “Succession,” which took the trophy in nearly every category in which it was nominated, including acting wins for Matthew Macfadyen and Sarah Snook. — It almost swept the television drama awards. In the fourth and final season of the HBO drama, viewers saw a different dimension of Culkin’s Roman as the character navigated a tragic loss in his family and subsequent decision to sell the family business to an egomaniacal tech mogul.
