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.
01:02Listen, 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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