Pedro Pascal is looking back at calling author J.K. Rowling a "heinous loser" for her anti-trans views. In April, the actor responded to a social media post that criticized Rowling for celebrating the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom’s landmark ruling that trans women should not be recognized as women and that "sex" should legally mean biological sex.
00:00Pedro Pascal is looking back at calling author J.K. Rowling a heinous loser for her anti-trans views.
00:07In April, the actor responded to a social media post that criticized Rowling for celebrating the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom's landmark ruling
00:15that trans women should not be recognized as women and that sex should legally mean biological sex.
00:22Rowling's original post stated,
00:23I love it when a plan comes together and added to the critic, I get the same royalties whether you read my books or burn them.
00:30Enjoy your marshmallows.
00:32Pascal responded with awful, disgusting shit is exactly right.
00:36Heinous loser behavior.
00:37Now, Pascal in a Vanity Fair interview said his comment growing into a larger story made him feel like that kid that got sent to the principal's office a lot for behavioral issues in public schools in Texas,
00:48feeling scared and thinking, what did I do?
00:50The one thing that I would say I agonized over a little bit was just, am I helping?
00:54Am I f***ing helping?
00:55It's a situation that deserves the utmost elegance so that something can actually happen and people will actually be protected.
01:01Listen, I want to protect the people I love, but it goes beyond that.
01:05Bullies make me f***ing sick.
01:07Pascal's sister, Lux Pascal, came out as a trans woman in 2021.
01:11Pascal's sister, Javiera, defended her brother's comment about Rowling, telling Vanity Fair,
01:15but it is heinous loser behavior, and he said that as the older brother to someone saying that our little sister doesn't exist.
01:22Speaking of bullies, he also noted of his Fantastic Four casting,
01:26I'm more aware of disgruntlement around my casting than anything I've ever done.
01:30He's too old, he's not right, he needs to shave.
01:33He credited Robert Downey Jr. for being a support system.
01:36He's just so immediately generous and inviting that you feel like you can be afraid, you can be hungry, you can be ambivalent.
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