Pedro Pascal, the icon that masculinity needs

This year on the Croisette, there is one star that shines a little brighter than the others: Pedro Pascal.

Walking the red carpet alongside Emma Stone and Joaquin Phoenix to present Eddington , the new film by Ari Aster, the Chilean-American actor castigated the Trump administration's immigration policy and "slammed the government's campaign of illegal deportations," reports the MSNBC website .

His commitment to (particularly) marginalized people makes him “Hollywood's new darling the masculine ideal that America needs,” according to the American news channel.

“I want people to be protected and safe. But what I also want, more than anything, is to be on the right side of history. I am an immigrant. My parents are Chilean refugees. I am a refugee myself. We fled a dictatorship, and I was incredibly fortunate to grow up in the United States after being granted asylum.

in Denmark.”

Pedro Pascal, during the press conference dedicated to his latest film, Eddington at the Cannes Film Festival

The Last of Us actor's statement even ended with a call to action: "Fuck the people who try to scare you and fight back."

Beyond his fight for human rights, “Pedro Pascal’s views and advocacy for minorities, including the LGBTQI community, offer us a refreshing, even unexpected, expression of masculinity,” MSNBC abounds. This is especially true at a time when leading male figures in this country, embodied by Trump and his fans, are steeped in cruelty.

“Where toxic masculinity, individualism and nationalism amalgamate in Maga culture, Pedro Pascal exposes a masculinity rooted in an ethic

of kindness.”

The website of the American news channel “MSNBC”

To support its argument, MSNBC quotes Joane Nagel, a sociologist who describes how masculinist and nationalist theories interact to the point of sometimes merging.

Now Pedro Pascal is precisely at the opposite end of this representation of virility.

“An ethic that also seems to apply on a personal level, as Pedro Pascal made headlines in March after posting a photo of himself hugging his friend, actor Oscar Isaac, in an exquisite display of

'non-toxic masculinity ' .

The website of the American news channel “MSNBC”

“Sure, Pedro Pascal has a Colgate smile,” the American network concedes lucidly. “But it’s above all his expression of masculinity, rooted in kindness, that has earned him his status as a sex symbol. He’s living proof that there are few things sexier (or more manly) than taking care of others.” —