Pedro Pascal explained why he called out J.K. Rowling earlier this year for her “heinous loser behavior” earlier this year.
Pascal reflected on why he lashed out at Rowling for celebrating an anti-trans court ruling in a new Vanity Fair profile. “Listen, I want to protect the people I love,” said Pascal, whose sister, Lux Pascal, is a transgender activist and actor.
“But, it goes beyond that,” he continued. “Bullies make me fucking sick.”
Pascal, who funds the U.K.’s “gender critical” movement, revealed what he wondered when it happened — if what he was doing would make a difference. “The one thing that I would say I agonized over a little bit was just, ‘Am I helping? Am I fucking helping?’” he admitted.
“It’s a situation that deserves the utmost elegance so that something can actually happen, and people will actually be protected,” Pascal added.
In April, J.K. Rowling took to social media to gloat about the U.K. Supreme Court ruling to exclude transgender women from the legal definition of “women.”
“I love it when a plan comes together,” she wrote, posting that with a picture of her smirking, holding a drink, and puffing a celebratory cigar.
Activist Tariq Ra’ouf posted an Instagram video about Rowling’s post, saying it was “some serious Voldemort villain shit.” Pascal liked the video and hopped in the comments to give his own two cents. “Awful disgusting SHIT is exactly right,” wrote Pascal. Heinous LOSER behavior.”
Earlier this year, Pascal shared a pro-trans quote on social media that said, “A world without trans people has never existed and never will.”
After followers became divided in his comments between supporting him and suggesting they would unfollow him for his post, Pascal pinned a comment making it clear how he felt.
"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," he wrote.