Actor Pedro Pascal has made a name for himself as a fierce defender of trans rights, fueled by the love he has for his trans sister, actress Lux Pascal. In a new interview, Lux spoke about how special it was growing up with a brother who always saw her for exactly who she is.

“If there was anyone in the family who knew who I was before the rest of the people did, I just knew that you knew,” Lux told Pedro, who is 17 years her senior, in a conversation between the brother-sister duo in Elle.

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“I remember I was 16 or something, and for the first time, I was going out with this man who was a lot older than me, and I remember you were looking at me and you told me, because you were afraid, and it was just a little fling, but you were like, ‘Uh, yeah, it’s because you’re my little sister.'”

“I don’t know if you even remember that moment, but it was just so affirming for me to be like, Yeah, he knows. He knows who I am. You were treating me like your little sister from the very beginning.”

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She spoke about a play her brother wrote in 2009 called Flaca Loves Bone, which featured a trans woman as a main character.

“I weirdly feel like I was connected to it before I knew,” Lux said.

Pedro sweetly replied, “Well, you, in my imagination, are my muse… When I’m building things in my imagination, I see you before I see myself.”

During the chat, Lux also said one of the best pieces of advice her brother has given her is, “Just be yourself. People will see it eventually. Just be yourself.” 

Pedro said he appreciates the confidence Lux instills in him.

“You’re the first person to empower me and to give me confidence, to the point where your lack of patience for it is what gives me confidence,” he said. “Because you’re just like, ‘Enough is enough. You’re the sh*t,’ and you’re the person I believe the most, so that keeps me going.”

Lux also spoke about her role in the new feature film Miss Carbón, which is out in Spain and will soon be released on Netflix. In it, Lux plays the real-life Carlita Antonella Rodríguez, a trans woman and the first female coal miner in her Argentinian town.

Pedro is known for being incredibly supportive of Lux. “Mi hermana, mi corazón, nuestra Lux,” he wrote in a post to Instagram when she came out in 2021. The post shared a photo of Lux, who appeared on the cover of the Chilean magazine Revista Ya. Translated, his caption means, “My sister, my heart, our Lux.”

Citing her brother as a “guide,” Lux Pascal told the magazine that Pedro “was one of the first people to gift me the tools that started shaping my identity.”

When she came out to him via FaceTime, the first thing her older brother did was ask her “how I felt, because I remember he was a little worried.”

Then, he said, “Perfect, this is incredible,” she recalled.

Pedro is known for not being afraid to speak out publicly against transphobia.

He recently called anti-trans Harry Potter author JK Rowling a “heinous loser” peddling “Awful disgusting SH*T” after she celebrated an anti-trans ruling from the UK’s Supreme Court.

And at the London premiere of Marvel’s Thunderbolts*, he wore a T-shirt declaring “Protect The Dolls,” a term of endearment for trans women. Fashion designer Conner Ives created the T-shirt, which has become a popular symbol of solidarity, with proceeds benefiting Trans Lifeline. 

Pedro donned the shirt less than a week after the Supreme Court of the U.K. ruled that trans women are not to be considered women under the 2010 Equality Act.

He also recently posted to Instagram, “A world without trans people has never existed and never will.”

He added in the comments, “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.”

In February, he shared a clip on his Instagram featuring the late trans activist Cecilia Gentili to express his support for trans rights. “Know who you are. Progress is inevitable,” he captioned the post, in homage to Gentili’s words.

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