Pedro Pascal goes shirtless on Christmas vacation.Photo:Lauren Alexander/Instagram (2)

Pedro Pascal Celebrates Christmas Shirtless While Lounging on Beach

Lauren Alexander/Instagram (2)

It was a shirts-off Christmas forPedro Pascal.

Hot off theGladiator IIpress tour, the Chilean actor, 49, headed to the beach to celebrate the holidays with friends, including designer and LNA Clothing founder Lauren Alexander, who blessed everyone’s Instagram feeds with shirtless content of the Emmy-nominated star.

In a video shared to Alexander’s Instagram Stories on Dec. 25, an abs-baring Pascal looked effortlessly cool while reading Olga Tokarczuk’s “Don’t Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (yes, we zoomed in) on a lounge chair. His signature curls were also in perfect form, probably thanks to the sea salt-infused air.

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Pedro Pascal pulls a smize pose while lounging around on Christmas vacation.Lauren Alexander/Instagram

Pedro Pascal Celebrates Christmas Shirtless While Lounging on Beach

Lauren Alexander/Instagram

Alexander shared another photo of Pascal wearing aroon swim trunks and aviator sunglasses. He joined composer Brandan Campbell (the two both worked onGame of Thrones) in having a drink out of a large green coconut.

Pascal wasn’t topless the whole vacation, though. Another beach photo shared to Instagram showed the star clad in a loose-fitted white T-shirt and chevron-print swim shorts. He posed next to singerOmar Apolloand Franklin Latt, a talent agent per his IMDb page.

Brandon Campbell (left) and Pedro Pascal (right).Lauren Alexander/Instagram

Brandon Campbell and Pedro Pascal

No matter what time of year it is, Pascal is always down for a sunny oceanside getaway. Speaking with PEOPLE in May in partnership with Corona, he described his"perfect summer day”as one spent on the beach “with friends and with good music.”

Part of why he loves the beach so much is because there’s nothing more “therapeutic” than being near the ocean “and not thinking about anything more than just where you’re at that moment.”

Franklin Latt, Pedro Pascal and Omar Apollo pose for beachy snapshot.Lauren Alexander/Instagram

Franklin Latt, Pedro Pascal and Omar Apollo

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source: people.com