The Epic Pedro Pascal Movie That Spawned Your Favorite Meme Is Now On Netflix

Picture a smiling Pedro Pascal. There’s a good chance that the first image that popped into your head was a meme.

The meme in question features a wide-eyed, smiling Pascal, his brown hair whipping in the wind as he drives a convertible down a winding road. The image was used in joke after joke about how you look at someone with adoration in your eyes. “Me, looking at the Ben & Jerry’s I’m about to guzzle down.”

It’s also used to joke about the many obligations you choose to ignore. “Me, scrolling through TikTok at 4AM instead of writing my ECON paper.”

But where did this wonderful image come from? It turns out that the Pedro Pascal meme is from an epic movie–and it’s now streaming on Netflix.

The wild ride that is The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022)

The Pedro Pascal meme is thanks to the 2022 Nic Cage movie, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. In this action comedy, Cage stars as himself, struggling with a faltering career as a waning Hollywood star. When he gets a call from his agent about a rich man overseas who wants him to make a very well-paid appearance at his party, he begrudgingly accepts.

Enter Pedro Pascal’s Javi Gutierrez–Cage’s biggest fan. All he wants is to be best friends with the actor and, as a result, convince him to star in the movie he’s written. Sure, Javi may be the leader of an international crime ring, but he’s also loveably adorable.

So begins an epic bromance between the two men and their larger-than-life personalities. The key frame from the movie that launched a thousand memes comes when Pedro’s Javi gazes lovingly at Cage during a car chase. Get someone who looks at you like Pedro Pascal looks at Nic Cage.

The action movie is hilarious, fun, and much better than most of Nic Cage’s movies of the last few decades. Check it out on Netflix so you can finally see where your favorite Pedro Pascal meme came from.