Pedro Pascal’s ‘Eddington’ Is a PTSD Trip Back to COVID Insanity

BACK TO BEFORE

“Eddington,” which just premiered at Cannes, has Pascal and Joaquin Phoenix facing off about masking and misinformation. Sound familiar?

A photo illustration of Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal in the A24 film "Eddington."
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/A24

Think back to the summer of 2020. I know, I get it, you don’t want to, neither do I, really.

But picture the kind of brain rot that set in during those months of the pandemic when everything felt bizarre and scary and on fire.

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