Watch: Bad Bunny, Pedro Pascal Don Drag for 'Protective Mom' Skit on 'SNL'

Kilian Melloy READ TIME: 1 MIN.

Pedro Pascal returned to his 'Saturday Night Live' role of Protective Mom this weekend, donning drag alongside global recording artist phenom and host Bad Bunny.

The new skit played out along the same lines as last Frebruary's first "Protective Mom" sketch: "SNL" cast member Marcello Hernández brings home a new girlfriend, Chloe Troast, warning her that his aunt will be joining them for dinner but adding that the aunt – played by Bad Bunny – isn't nearly as overprotective as his mother, who isn't home that night.

Bad Bunny plays the aunt, sweeping in with a long black wig, eyeglasses, and a red sweater – and a full beard.

Mom, however, does turn out to be home; Pascal wears the same pink-and-white ensemble as in the first skit, as well as sporting facial hair of his own. Making a grand entrance, Pascal proceeds – as in the first skit – to launch into a barrage of Spanish in which his Mom character and Bad Bunny's Aunt critique Hernández's date. At one point, when Troast offers a tin of cookies, Pascal replays a gag from the first sketch, tossing the cookies in the trash – but, in a fresh twist, promptly filling it up again with sewing items that have been left scattered across a shelf.

The Spanish language jibes and one-liners fly as Troast's character, who doesn't speak Spanish, looks on with growing alarm. The Spanish is not translated, but don't worry: You get the gist. By the end, Troast hilariously manages to win over both Mom and Aunt. Watch how she does it, below.


by Kilian Melloy , EDGE Staff Reporter

Kilian Melloy serves as EDGE Media Network's Associate Arts Editor and Staff Contributor. His professional memberships include the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association, the Boston Online Film Critics Association, The Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association, and the Boston Theater Critics Association's Elliot Norton Awards Committee.

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