Pedro Pascal says JK Rowling “makes me sick”
Pedro Pascal has once again hit out at JK Rowling, saying her vocal transgender-exclusionary politics “make me sick”.
The actor was speaking in a recent interview with Vanity Fair when he was asked to explain his stance on the author, given that he has made a range of social media posts in recent months condemning her behaviour.
Pascal admitted: “The one thing that I would say I agonised over a little bit was just, ‘Am I helping? Am I fucking helping?’,” before adding, “It’s a situation that deserves the utmost elegance so that something can actually happen, and people will actually be protected.”
The actor, who is set to star in a range of upcoming movies including Materialists and Eddington, has been an outspoken supporter of transgender rights since his sister, Lux, transitioned genders in 2021.
After Rowling made a particularly offensive post following the Supreme Court’s ruling over the definition of a woman back in April, Pascal branded her “awful, disgusting,” and “a heinous loser.”
Subsequently, he defended the comments in his latest interview by saying: “Listen, I want to protect the people I love. But it goes beyond that. Bullies make me fucking sick.”
This is a notion that has been confirmed various times by the actor, including in an Instagram post from February where he said: “I can’t think of anything more vile and small and pathetic than terrorizing the smallest, most vulnerable community of people who want nothing from you, except the right to exist.”
Pascal has repeatedly supported transgender people’s fight for their rights all over the world, recently becoming one of the signatories of an open letter to US President Donald Trump, imploring him not to slash federal funding for LGBTQ+ youth suicide prevention schemes.
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