It's no secret that Pedro Pascal has long shared The Mandalorian's lead role with stand-ins and stuntmen Brendan Wayne and Lateef Crowder. While The Last of Us star lends his voice to the bounty hunter in every singe episode, he's not always the one wearing the armour on set.
Or at all, for that matter.
While he was in front of the camera during The Mandalorian's first season and, occasionally for the second, Pascal has confirmed in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter that Din Djarin is strictly a voiceover role now.
"There was an extended amount of experimentation, being in the suit for a lot of it, and frankly, my body wasn’t up for the task as far as, like, the four months of it," the actor reveals. "But I was in it. I was in it a significant amount, an elastic amount (he pretends to tug at his neck, where the suit would chafe)."
"But now we’ve figured it out, which is super cool, and amazingly, it gave me the opportunity to be able to go and do something else."
We saw Pascal's face once during season 1 and a couple of times in season 2, but not at all in the latest batch of episodes. The show explained that away by quickly having Din bathe himself in the Living Waters beneath Mandalore, meaning he's back to keeping his helmet on after previously breaking his vow by removing his helmet (thereby losing his status as a Mandalorian).
So long as Pascal continues to lend his voice to the character, we're sure this won't have a negative impact on the series, especially when Wayne and Crowder do such a terrific job. The actor certainly seems pretty happy with the deal, anyway, and doesn't appear to have any intentions of leaving the Star Wars franchise despite persistent bogus rumours to the contrary.
The Mandalorian season 3 is now streaming on Disney+.