The Pedro Pascal lookalike winner has a plea for the real Pedro Pascal.
Brooklyn dad George Gountas appeared on Tuesday’s episode of “The Daily Show,” where he works as a lighting designer, and spoke to host Jon Stewart about his big victory at the lookalike contest — including his wife Jenny Gania’s reaction.
“Her position is, ‘I’m cool with you getting all this attention, if I can meet Pedro Pascal,’” said Gountas, 42.
Gountas then looked directly at the camera and delivered a message to the “Last Of Us” actor.
“Hey Pedro, this is Pedro #5 from New York,” Gountas said. “It would be a great, great, great gift if you could meet my wife, Jenny. It would mean the world to her. We need to make this happen.”
As the audience cheered, Stewart told Gountas, “I don’t see how Pedro #1 could turn down Pedro #5.”
On Father’s Day Sunday, Gountas won the Pedro Pascal lookalike contest at the Lower East Side’s Son Del North Mexican restaurant.
He beat out 30 other people for the title, which came with $50 and a year’s supply of burritos from the eatery.
Gountas’ wife told The Post that he was first told about his resemblance to Pascal when “Game of Thrones” came out. Pascal portrayed Oberyn Martell in the hit HBO series
“Then some kids started noting it, too, so I was like, when we saw this [contest], I was like, ‘It’s Father’s Day. You have to go. It’s going to be your Father’s Day treat,’ ” Gania recalled to The Post.
“It’s funny,” she added, “because he’s not on social media at all. But now he’s going to be everywhere.”
On “The Daily Show,” Gountas said he didn’t expect to win the contest when he arrived without even having reserved a spot.
“I rolled up and I’m like, ‘Yo, I’m here,’” he told Stewart. “And they were like, ‘You’re going to win.’”
The Greenpoint resident also said that the attention he’s gotten from winning the contest has been “f—ing insane.”
“So, none of this bothers me,” Gountas stated. “I’ve been in the industry for many years. I’ve been around famous people.”
“But the thing that I was most, not scared of, the most uneasy about, was coming here today,” he admitted to Stewart, who said the staff of the Comedy Central show have been “going bananas” about the contest.
[Notigroup Newsroom in collaboration with other media outlets, with information from the following sources]
