As Bad Bunny delivered his historic halftime performance at Super Bowl LX in February, Pedro Pascal was not prepared to be so involved with the celebration.
After he appeared dancing with a star-studded group of partiers in ‘La Casita’ during the show at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California, the Golden Globe nominee admitted he was “under the impression” that he’d be enjoying the show from off the field.
“I wanted to participate in any way – literally a volunteer position, like serving coffee if needed – and I put the feelers out through people I work with,” he told Fantastic Man. “When it comes to representation synchronised with celebration there’s no one better than Benito at the moment, and that fills me with inspiration outside of just being super into his music.
Pascal added, “Then I went straight into shooting this project with Tony Gilroy named Behemoth!. I was on set every day, and if I wasn’t shooting, then I was in a cello lesson. Afterwards I was lamenting about not hearing back and I sent someone an email with a selfie of me sticking my tongue out, being, like, ‘It’s really me.’ Within 25 minutes, they called me back and they were, like, ‘We want you to come to the show.’”
During the set, Pascal joined Cardi B, Alix Earle, Dave Grutman, Karol G, Jessica Alba, Ronald Acuña Jr. and Young Miko in dancing on the porch of a pink-painted house facade, which has accompanied the 6x Grammy winner on tour.
Participants including Ronald Acuña Jr., Young Miko, Pedro Pascal, Giannina Mourouvin, Karol G, Cardi B, Jessica Alba, David Grutman and Alix Earle pose onstage during the Super Bowl LX halftime show on Feb. 8, 2026 at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California. (Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Roc Nation)
“I was under the impression that I would be in a suite. There was a dress code – ‘wear beige’ – but I thought it was in case there’d be a photographer,” explained Pascal. “So we’re up in the stands watching the game and somebody pulls me from my seat and takes me backstage and then there’s Cardi B and there’s Young Miko and Karol G and Jessica Alba. They do a wardrobe check and then they tell me, ‘Okay, so the vibe is: you’re dancing.’ I started to realise right before they started, and I was, like, ‘It’s the Casita. I’m such a fucking idiot. Oh my god, I’m going to be in the Casita,’ as I was being marched out into the field. So I think that’s why I seemed like a deer in headlights.”
Bad Bunny’s Spanish-language halftime performance was a cultural lightning rod as Donald Trump slammed the show as “a slap in the face to our country” after his DHS secretary Kristi Noem warned that ICE would “be all over that place,” despite the Puerto Rican-born artist being an American citizen.
