Pedro Pascal lookalike contest won by NYC dad, receives $50 and free burritos

Daddy was the state of mind that all of the entrants in NYC’s Pedro Pascal look-alike contest were channeling on Sunday, but only one of them walked away with an extra $50 and a year’s worth of free burritos. 

George Gountas was crowned the unanimous winner during the Father’s Day competition, which drew in enthusiastic crowds waving Grogu dolls and signs to organizer Son Del North’s Mexican restaurant in the Lower East Side. The Brooklyn dad — who was brought to the event by his family — bested nearly 30 other individuals for the coveted title. 

Gountas’ wife, Jenny Gania, told the New York Post that her husband started fielding comparisons to Pascal after the Emmy-nominated actor appeared as Oberyn Martell on Game of Thrones. Soon, she said, even kids started pointing out his similarity to The Last of Us and The Mandalorian star. 

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“When we saw this [contest], I was like, ‘It’s Father’s Day. You have to go. It’s going to be your Father’s Day treat,’” Gania recalled. “It’s funny because he’s not on social media at all. But now he’s going to be everywhere.”

Like Pascal, Gountas also has his own connection to film and television — he is a lighting director who has worked on The Daily Show for years, per Deadline. His IMDb page also credits him as a lighting designer on several comedy specials from Trevor Noah, Ramy Youssef, Pete Davidson, and Chris Rock. 

The look-alike contest was held by Son Del North chef and co-owner Annisha Garcia after Pascal infamously claimed in a 2023 Hot Ones interview that there was no good Mexican food in the city. 

“I’m [like], ‘So sorry, but there’s no Mexican, good Mexican food in New York?’” Garcia told the Post. “And we were like, ‘There is, and we are here.’”

The event comes on the heels of last October’s Timothée Chalamet look-alike contest in NYC, which famously saw the actual Little Timmy Tim turn up at the Washington Square Park event. The competition sparked a global movement, with Glen Powell, Drake, Jeremy Allen White, Paul Mescal, Harry Styles, and Dev Patel look-alike contests popping up all around the world.

Chalamet and Powell, however, both took their contests a step further, with the Complete Unknown actor tapping several of his doppelgängers to appear alongside him in a Saturday Night Live promotional sketch before he hosted the show in January. Powell also offered the winner of his competition — a man named Max Braunstein — a cameo role in his next movie.

And, in the best use of their newfound internet fame, Braunstein and the Chalamet contest winner, Miles Mitchell, were even invited to the 2025 Golden Globes. Your move, 2025 Emmys!