I wrote a VIP post a few nights ago about actor Pedro Pascal defending calling "Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling a "heinous loser" for standing up for women's exclusive spaces, such as prisons and rape crisis centers.
Pascal is leading the cast of Disney/Marvel's big "Fantastic Four: First Steps" release next month, and it seems like the challenge for Disney actors to not say something stupid before a tentpole release is impossible.
Pascal, 50, whose "sister" recently came out as a woman, added that "bullies make me f**cking sick." Yeah, the guy with intact genitals who's trying to use the law to force women's crisis centers to give him a cot is the real bully.
I've never seen Pascal in anything except "Wonder Woman 84" (which suuuuuuucked), but I know he's the star of "The Mandalorian" — the Disney+ show that also starred Gina Carano until her "problematic" (i.e., mildly conservative) posts. Pascal knows he's in no trouble with the studio, whose producers have admitted they were wherever they were just "adding queerness" wherever they could. This was during Disney's emergency all-hands meeting to deal with the internal backlash against Florida's Parental Rights in Education law, and where we learned that Disney corporate president Karey Burke has one transgender child and one pansexual child. What are the odds of that?
Josh Azevedo wrote for a publication named "Gayety" that Pascal had "shut down" Rowling, but Rowling admitted she didn't feel "shut down."
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Can't say I feel very shut down, but keep at it, Pedro. God loves a trier. pic.twitter.com/xuyRGiquLx
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) June 28, 2025
Rowling is awesome.
watch out, this guy is going to shut you downhttps://t.co/UpLZFWbJQS
— PoIiMath (@politicalmath) June 28, 2025
“Pedro Pascal bravely risks nothing by agreeing with Hollywood on everything”.
— MitchPls (@MitchPls4Real) June 28, 2025
A stunning and courageous stance.
This guy is distictly average, but pushes the woke agenda, which means he will work forever.
— Matthew Marsden (@matthewdmarsden) June 28, 2025
Say woman are women and you will never get a gig in Hollywood again.
I would rather have the integrity of telling the truth.
Pedro Pascal ‘shutting down’ Rowling is like waving a pool noodle at a battleship and declaring naval supremacy.
— TechSignals (@TechSignalsonX) June 28, 2025
Reflecting on fame? Seems he needs far less time than @jk_rowling on such things. Who is he again?
— Michael Wildman (@MichaelWildman) June 28, 2025
I didn't see it, but the producers of "Gladiator II" apparently thought he was masculine enough to fill Russell Crowe's boots.
I don't know who Pedro Pascal is, honestly. I DO know who J.K. Rowling is.
— Marilyn Groves (@ker95TX) June 28, 2025
Dear J.K. there is a detail that you are missing here and it’s that Pedro comes from a family of prominent communists. Please don’t underestimate them, and please never stop fighting them. Blessed be.
— Lady Astor 🗡️ (@Lady_Astor) June 28, 2025
Let's settle this at the box office. We reported a couple of years ago that a "boycotted" video game based on the works of Rowling had made a billion dollars … my money's on "Fantastic Four" struggling to reach $400 million worldwide.
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