Pedro Pascal doesn’t regret calling out J.K. Rowling for her “heinous loser behavior.”
The “Mandalorian” actor talked about insulting the “Harry Potter” author in a profile for Vanity Fair published Tuesday, telling the magazine why he was quick to knock Rowling for celebrating an anti-trans court ruling from the United Kingdom Supreme Court earlier this year.
U.K.’s top court ruled that a woman is someone born biologically female, excluding transgender people from the legal definition, according to The Associated Press.
“Listen, I want to protect the people I love,” said Pascal, whose sister Lux Pascal is a transgender actor and activist.
“But it goes beyond that,” he added. “Bullies make me fucking sick.”
While the “Last of Us” actor was happy to check Rowling, he did ask himself if ridiculing the writer, who has been proudly funding parts of the U.K.’s “gender critical” movement, was the most productive way to be an ally.
“The one thing that I would say I agonized over a little bit was just, ‘Am I helping? Am I fucking helping?’” he told Vanity Fair.
“It’s a situation that deserves the utmost elegance so that something can actually happen, and people will actually be protected,” Pascal went on.
Standing up to Rowling wasn’t the only way the “Fantastic Four: First Steps” star showed up for the trans community after the U.K.’s landmark court decision.
One week after the ruling was announced, Pascal wore a “PROTECT THE DOLLS” shirt to the London premiere of Marvel’s “Thunderbolts*.”
Crafted by fashion designer Connor Ives, the slogan uses an affectionate term for trans women as a call to action.
CORRECTION: This story has been updated to clarify that the court did not issue the language that was quoted in a prior version of the article.