The winner of the Pedro Pascal lookalike contest deserved his win

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A trendy Mexican spot in NYC hosted a Pedro Pascal doppelganger showdown, with about 30 fans channeling their inner star from The Mandalorian and The Last of Us.

Son Del North Mexican restaurantโ€™s co-owner Annisha Garcia, whose spot sits in Manhattanโ€™s Lower East Side, said Pascalโ€™s 2023 dig about NYC lacking good Mexican food sparked the idea.

โ€œWe were like, โ€˜There is, and we are here,'โ€ Garcia told the New York Post.

The crown went to Pedro No. 5, aka Brooklyn resident George Gountas.

Gountas, who works as a lighting pro for Comedy Centralโ€™s The Daily Show, entered after his wife Jenny Gania pushed him to join.

โ€œIt started when the Game of Thrones came out the first time โ€” thatโ€™s when we first heard it,โ€ Gania said. โ€œThen some kids started noting it, too, so I was like, when we saw this [contest], I was like, โ€˜Itโ€™s Fatherโ€™s Day. You have to go. Itโ€™s going to be your Fatherโ€™s Day treat.โ€™ Itโ€™s funny, because heโ€™s not on social media at all. But now heโ€™s going to be everywhere.โ€

Gountas scored $50 and free burritos for a year from Son Del North.


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