It's no secret that The Mandalorian star Pedro Pascal spends little to no time wearing Din Djarin's Beskar armour; instead, Brendan Wayne and Lateef Crowder are responsible for breathing life into everyone's favourite bounty hunter on set.
Pascal has suited up on a handful of occasions, though, including in the show's season 1 finale when IG-11 took his helmet off. During season 2, Din removed that on two separate occasions, and we went into season 3 expecting to see the hero's face again. Now, we have news on why that didn't happen.
According to The Hot Mic's Jeff Sneider (via SFFGazette.com), "I'm told that Pedro Pascal's [face] not being in 'The Mandalorian' was a scheduling thing. He wasn't seen in 'The Mandalorian' finale. That was simply a matter of scheduling with 'The Last of Us', which is in first position for him. He was on set for a couple of episodes this past season."
So, it seems Pascal did wear the suit at some point but wasn't able to appear on camera due to scheduling.
That makes more sense than the seemingly endless bogus rumours about Pascal clashing with The Mandalorian's producers, anyway. Remember, The Last of Us began shooting in July 2021 and didn't wrap until June 2022.
As for this Star Wars TV series, cameras started rolling in October 2021 before production was completed in March 2022.
We're guessing early plans called for Moff Gideon to remove Din's helmet. Now The Armorer is no longer such a fanatic about true Mandalorians keeping their helmets on, Din probably wouldn't have needed to earn forgiveness and could have freely removed his helmet moving forward. For now, though, he's sticking to the creed.
The Mandalorian is expected to return for a fourth season (you can learn more about that here), and with Din and Grogu now working for the New Republic on an unofficial basis, we're excited to see where this story goes next.