GamesRadar) about his role on the show, and what he thinks about Pascal taking over the character.
“What I love is that you don’t necessarily think Pedro Pascal, but the second that you mention the name, you go, ‘Okay, okay, I can see that,'” Baker responded when asked about Pascal’s take on Joel. “And then you see him as Joel, and then you watch him as Joel. And what it showed me was that thankfully this character is bigger than any one performance. If it had just been like, I’m the only one who could do it, then we didn’t do a good enough job. This character needs to be bigger than one actor.”