Pedro + Olivia on set

We are almost halfway through December, and I don’t know about you, but I am thoroughly in “let’s circle back in January” mode. If I don’t have to do it, I’m NOT. The end of the year is for procrastinating! Not for actors, though. They’ve got to cram in their press tours and principal photography before everyone in Los Angeles vanishes in a holiday mist. To wit: Pedro Pascal and Olivia Wilde are at work on Tony Gilroy’s new movie.

Andor has bought Tony Gilroy a LOT of credit, and his first post-Andor project is a film called Behemoth!, starring Pedro Pascal as a cellist. (It was going to be Oscar Isaac for a hot minute, but he had to drop out, but that would have been a Bourne Legacy reunion with Gilroy and Isaac, who had a supporting role in that film. Apparently, Gilroy wanted Isaac to star in the film but the studio, Universal, wanted a bigger star, so the lead role went to Jeremy Renner, a decision which has aged brilliantly and I’m sure no one has any regrets at all.) 

Details beyond that are skint, but besides Pascal and Wilde, the film also stars David Harbour, Margarita Levieva, and Eva Victor, who was just twice nominated at the Golden Globes for writing and starring in Sorry, Baby (they also direct the film). Eva Victor, it should be noted, once wrote for Reductress, the site with the best headlines on the internet. We should not be surprised they are now winning awards for screenwriting. 

Pedro Pascal, as we know, stays busy. He had a big 2025 with Materialists, Fantastic Four, and season two of The Last of Us—which was kind of the last of him, ba dum ching. Next year will be just as big, with The Mandalorian and Grogu and Avengers: Doomsday, and maybe Behemoth!, depending on what the post-production schedule looks like. 

Olivia Wilde, on the other hand, has kept a low profile in recent years. She hasn’t had a film out since 2022 and the Don’t Worry Darling rodeo. She appeared as herself in an episode of The Studio, but that is all the screentime she’s had in the last three years. But she has not been idle, having starred in Gregg Araki’s next film, I Want Your Sex (which was rejected by Cannes earlier this year, but is a potential Sundance 2026 entry), and she directed another film, The Invite. 

It’s an English-language adaptation of the Spanish film The People Upstairs, with the script coming from Rashida Jones and Will McCormack. The film stars Seth Rogen, Penelope Cruz, Edward Norton, and Wilde. Suddenly her cameo in The Studio makes more sense—Wilde is friendly with Seth Rogen’s comedy crew. That is not a bad group of people to have in your corner. So it will be a big 2026 for Pedro Pascal, but also for Olivia Wilde, who will probably be back as a director with The Invite later next year. May this time around go smoother than the last.