“I want to protect the people I love. But it goes beyond that. Bullies make me fucking sick,” the actor shared in a recent interview
The general consensus is that Pedro Pascal wasn’t in the wrong for referring to J.K. Rowling‘s relentless spewing of anti-trans rhetoric as “heinous loser behavior” earlier this year. In a recent interview with Vanity Fair, his own sister Javiera Balmaceda backed his stance, saying, “But it is heinous loser behavior. And he said that as the older brother to someone, saying that our little sister doesn’t exist.” Pascal, whose sister Lux Pascal came out as trans in 2021, told the magazine that his drive to defend goes deeper than just family.
“The one thing that I would say I agonized over a little bit was just, ‘Am I helping? Am I fucking helping?’” he said. It’s a situation that deserves the utmost elegance so that something can actually happen, and people will actually be protected. Listen, I want to protect the people I love. But it goes beyond that. Bullies make me fucking sick.”
Pascal added that he felt for a moment like “that kid that got sent to the principal’s office a lot for behavioral issues in public schools in Texas, feeling scared and thinking, What’d I do?” But the principle of his stance outweighed any external anxiety that might have accompanied the online spat.
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Elsewhere in the interview, Pascal is placed at the scene of his 50th birthday celebration. For his party at Stone Nest in London, the actor hired the trans, Grammy Award-winning DJ Honey Dijon to spin music throughout the night while he danced with his friends in a Protect the Dolls T-shirt.
In 2023, Pascal told Esquire about his connection with Lux, his younger sister. “She is and has always been one of the most powerful people and personalities I’ve ever known,” he said. “My protective side is lethal, but I need her more than she needs me.”