Din Djarin Removing His Helmet In The Mandalorian And Grogu ‘Made Total Sense’, Says Pedro Pascal

It’s a big deal when Din Djarin, aka The Mandalorian, takes his helmet off. Audiences briefly saw his face at the end of Season 1 when the character was seemingly on death’s door in a brutal firefight. He tearfully removed it, too, to say goodbye to young Grogu at the end of Season 2 – a transgression of his Mandalorian code that was so severe, he spent much of Season 3 attempting to pay penance by visiting the ‘Living Waters’ of Mandalore. But as the trailer for upcoming movie The Mandalorian And Grogu revealed, audiences will indeed be seeing Pedro Pascal’s face on the big screen. Din Djarin will be unmasked once more.

It’s not a decision taken lightly, for Din or his creators. “It’s a tricky thing,” director Jon Favreau tells Empire, “because you want to see his face, but the archetype is that of the helmet. How do we find a way to do it without undermining everything that we developed about the Mandalorian Creed?” Whatever the reason for Din’s unmasking, it offered a chance to really see Pedro Pascal let rip. While he still shares the role with fellow performers Lateef Crowder and Brendan Wayne, much of the film has Pascal under the Beskar. “You’ll see [Pedro] in the armour, both with and without the helmet,” confirms Favreau. And after Gladiator II put the actor through the muscular action paces of a Ridley Scott swords ’n’ sandals epic, he was ready to kick ass as Mando. “He’s a pretty physical performer,” Favreau says. “So we pushed a little further than we have in the past, as far as what he’s doing, helmet-off.”

For Pascal himself, the motivations for Din being unmasked felt just right. He learned he’d be showing his face on a call with Favreau, where the director gave him a beat-by-beat breakdown of the film’s narrative. “When we got to that part, all I can say is that it made perfect sense, and it was what I was hoping would be the reason,” the actor enthuses. “If I were to pitch something, I would say, ‘The only thing that makes sense is…’ And that’s exactly it. He filled that blank. I said immediately, ‘Jon, that’s exactly what I was hoping to hear!’” This is the way.

Read Empire’s full cover story on The Mandalorian And Grogu – speaking to Jon Favreau, Dave Filoni, Pedro Pascal, Sigourney Weaver and Jeremy Allen White about Star Wars’ big-screen comeback – in the May 2026 issue, on sale Thursday March 12. Pre-order a copy online here. The Mandalorian And Grogu comes to UK cinemas on May 22.