In the superhero film by Patty Jenkins in 2020 “Wonder Woman 1984”, an evil business magnate named Maxwell Lorenzano – better known to the world under the name of Max Lord (Pedro Pascal) – has a very, very ambitious diagram. He located a magic wishes crystal called Dreamstone, and carefully thought of what he wants to wish. Dreamstone, you see, can grant any wish, but it requires something summary in exchange. Max Lord has found a way to play the system in order to obtain as many wishes as they wish. If he wishes become The dream stone, so he can grant wishes to other people … and ask what he wants in exchange. He’s a win-win. Max Lord, of course, aims to become more and more powerful, granting wishes to dictators and presidents, requesting control of land, armies and broadcasting networks in exchange.
It is an appropriate ambition for a businessman in 1984, because it was the height of the pro-enterprise horrors of Ronald Reagan, creating a soulless Yuppie classless class that cares about money and power. Max Lord is one of the Yuppies of Reagan, which translated the capitalism of the time of the time in literal magic power. It is revealing that Reagan (Stuart Milligan) is a character in the film.
Max Lord also had a rather doubtful sense of fashion. He was a smooth seller who wore her hair in a combed blow and a bow tie around his neck. Unusually for Pascal, he was shaved clean, lacking in his signature mustache. It was … a choice. Max Lord was clearly trying to look like an aristocrat with the old and money, but ended up looking like a crazy clown (who was, I suppose, Patty Jenkins’ intention). Pedro Pascal recently appeared on the YouTube Ladbible series “Accept to Diskred”, and spoke very briefly about his “Wonder Woman 1984” look. It seems that the bow tie and the hair was not a problem, but it hated the fact that it was not allowed to keep its mustache.
Pedro Pascal hated that he had to shave the mustache for Wonder Woman 1984
The debate on the show “Accept to Nongest” was between Pascal and his co-star of “The Fantastic Four: First Steps” Vanessa Kirby, and they were talking about the sexy levels of bears and mustaches. Pascal argued that his mustache is not at all sexy, but that he believes that it is preferable to his clean face clean, which is even less sexy. “I cultivate such facial hair,” said Hair, “but if I had to shave everything … I really look very … in disagreement with a clean shaved.” Kirby (correctly) stresses that Pascal is a handsome man anyway.
When will he go back the last time he was shaved in a film? “Wonder Woman 1984”, of course. About this film specifically, Pascal said:
“I was so dismayed by my appearance. […] I loved the film, but I was so dismayed by the way I watched that I never returned. Unless it was completely necessary. If they asked me to be shaved for ‘Fantastic four, ‘ And if they had insisted, I would have done it. But it was a very collaborative creation for all our looks in the film. “”
“Fantastic Four” takes place in an alternative universe version of the early 1960s, so fashions are an amalgam of science fiction and Kitsch retro-futurism. In this environment, Pascal was allowed to keep his mustache. For the year 1984, however, the mustaches were out of fashion, at least for Yuppies (Tom Selleck and Edward James Olmos were proud exceptions), and it goes without saying that Max Lord would indeed be shaved.
Know that if Pascal appears in movies without a mustache, it is because he had to compromise on something.
