Want to Know About Pedro Pascal's Private Life? Then You Have to Be Part of It

Internet Zaddy and "The Last of Us" star Pedro Pascal opened up enough in a recent Vanity Fair Interview to explain that when it comes to his private life, he's actually "very unprivate"... at least, to those who are part of that private life.

"The 50-year-old has never publicly been confirmed to be in a relationship with someone," BuzzFeed noted.

"I always feel perplexed when I'm identified in whatever form of media as a 'highly private person,' because that's the opposite of me," the globally thirst-inspiring actor explained. "I just know that personal relationships are such a complex thing to navigate even without having this enormous lens on them."

The world beyond his inner circle will just have to keep wondering. In the meantime, the star of "The Mandalorian," who covers the latest issue of the Vanity Fair magazine, chatted about his family, his career, his lifelong love of movies, and his sentimental side – as well as the '60s-set MCU summer blockbuster he's starring in, "Fantastic Four: First Steps," where he plays the fantastically elastic scientist Reid Richards.

Pascal did drop an insight into his thoughts on parenting, saying, "I've had dreams of taking my kids to the movies the way my parents took me." So enchanted was he with film even as a youngster that he had no problem being left on his own at a cinema for hours on end while his mother – an immigrant, as was his father, fleeing the dictatorship in Chile at the time – was studying for her degree in child psychology.

The article even delved into an adventure Pascal had at the age of 16 when, having decided to experiment with LSD, he made a quick phone call home so his parents wouldn't worry about him being gone all night and, hearing that his parents wanted to take the family to the movies, headed home in a hurry.

Coyly, Pascal suggested that marriage, or at least a relationship, as a means to fatherhood was not necessarily something he yearned for, telling Vanity Fair that what he was basically interested in was someone with whom to enjoy moviegoing: "So I guess I want a shortcut to an interesting human being who is my child who will go see something that I want to see," he quipped.

Much less ambiguous is his stance when it comes to anti-trans forces currently waging war on transgender people like his younger sister, Lux, who he has unwaveringly supported.

"The week before our meeting, the UK Supreme Court has released a landmark anti-trans ruling limiting the legal definition of a woman to the basis of biological sex," Vanity Fair said, citing a decision handed down by the court in April.

"J.K. Rowling, who has largely funded the UK's war on the trans community, celebrated the ruling in a cruelly glib Instagram post," Vanity Fair added. "Pascal, ferociously protective of his baby sister, Lux, called out Rowling's rotten glee on Instagram as 'heinous LOSER behavior.'"

Transphobic right-wingers went on the attack and "tried to frame it as a man trying to bully a woman into silence," Vanity Fair recalled, but Pascal's older sister, Javiera Balmaceda (who, the site noted, is "a producer at Amazon Studios"), saw it differently, telling Vanity Fair that Rowling's conduct "is heinous loser behavior. And he said that as the older brother to someone saying that our little sister doesn't exist."

The magazine also recalled the "epic bad-faith argument" that transphobic right-wingers attempted when they circulated a photo of Pascal holding the hand of "Fantastic Four" co-star Vanessa Kirby (who plays "Invisible Girl" Sue Storm, Reid Richards' wife). In reality, this was no Joe-Biden-smelling-women's-hair sort of moment, let alone anything along the lines of Donald Trump's "Access Hollywood" hot mike scandal; it was merely Pascal, a warm-hearted individual, lending support to someone who, like himself, is extraordinarily sensitive.

"What happened is we were both incredibly nervous going out in front of thousands of people who love this comic," Kirby told the publication. "He wanted me to know that we were in this together, and I found it a lovely gesture and was very glad to squeeze his hand back."

Not that there was much danger of such weak attempts to smear Pascal gaining traction – not when he's almost universally adored. So potent is his presence in the zeitgeist that, Vanity Fair, recalled, "A New Yorker cartoon featured a therapist reassuring his client, 'It's not strange at all – lately, a lot of people are reporting that their faith in humanity is riding entirely on whether or not Pedro Pascal is as nice as he seems.'"

"The Last of Us" co-star Bella Ramsey verified that Pascal is, indeed, as nice as he seems: "I'm relieved for humanity," Ramsey, who is non-binary, declared. That Pascal is a genuinely kind and compassionate soul is a sentiment that sister Lux has publicly agreed with, as well.