"My Sister, My Heart, Our Lux"
The beautiful gender-affiming sibling love of Lux and Pedro Pascal
Pedro and Lux Pascal at the 2024 Emmys
It’s hard not to be envious of Lux Pascal.
She is wealthy, famous, and exquisitely gorgeous.
But most of all, she is that rare trans person who has been totally accepted by her family.
“Perfect, this is incredible,” was the reaction of big brother, Pedro, when Lux told him of her transition over a FaceTime call.
“[He] asked me how I felt, because I remember he was a little worried.” When she first told him. But she needn’t worry, as Pedro and the rest of her family had already expressed support for Lux when three years previously, she came out as non-binary.
“For everyone in my family, my transition has been something very natural. As if it were something they expected to happen,” she told the interviewer in Spanish when she revealed her transition in the February 2021 edition of YA REVISTA, the national magazine of Chile.
YA REVISTA interview (Feb. 2021)
Lux revealed that she started HRT in July 2020, and ever since, “Moving through the world as a woman is much more simple for me, but I still advocate for nonbinary identities to have a space in society,” Lux added.
Lux had appeared previously alongside Pedro in the third season of “Narcos” playing the character, “Elijah.” She was pre-transition at the time, but seeing images of herself from that period of her life isn’t traumatic for her as it is for many other trans people.
“I don’t get anxious [seeing] old photos of me,” she said, “The same thing happens to me with the theater. I see someone who was doing what they liked.”
Lux in ELLE (Sept. 15, 2025)
But it’s the sustaining public support Lux gets from Pedro that is so gloriously uplifting.
“I don’t want to give too much context about it,” Lux told Pedro in the October 2025 issue of ELLE magazine, “but I just called you crying and you were just saying no, shaking your head. Because I was telling you about what was making me cry, but you were just like, ‘Just be yourself. People will see it eventually. Just be yourself.’ And I was just like, Yes, he’s right.”
Lux in ELLE (Sept. 15, 2025)
“I remember thinking that 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 continued, “Even the play that you wrote [‘Flaca Loves Bone,’ about a trans heroine and a young man who fall in love], I weirdly feel like I was connected to it before I knew.”
She went on to recount how when she dated a man when she was younger, she knew Pedro knew something about her even then.
“Yeah, he knows. He knows who I am. You were treating me like your little sister from the very beginning.”
PEDRO: “Well, you, in my imagination, are my muse.”
LUX: “What? Me?”
PEDRO: “Yeah, for so long. With ‘Flaca Loves Bone’ being such early evidence—I wrote that in 2009. But when I’m building things in my imagination, I see you before I see myself.”
Lux is keenly aware that she is more fortunate than other trans people.
“I have had a certain form of privilege because I have been able to make my transition hidden and with support,” Lux said to REMEZCLA, a Latin American culture magazine on Feb. 9, 2021, “[The] LGBTQ+ equality movement has been led by the most marginalized of voices, those who at the end of the day, had nothing to lose because they had already been deprived everything. I have been very fortunate.”
Javiera, Pedro, Nicolás and Lux in Chile “the other Fantastic Four” (Feb. 15, 2024) [photo from Pedro’s Instagram]
Indeed, as a 2015 U. S. Transgender Survey reported that 60% of trans people claimed they were out to immediate family members, 49% of that number were rejected by at least one person in their family.
Lux in Montreal (June 2, 2025)
In her first YA interview, Lux noted, that “We need trans activists who are good, smart, informed and who can be strong voices against transphobia, homophobia, and racism.”
Her brother Pedro has done his part. Unlike many supposed “trans allies,” Pedro isn’t shy about speaking up when necessary. In 2020, he publicly called out his “The Mandalorian” castmate, Gina Carano, for poking fun at the use of preferred pronouns on social media. And he has had an ongoing feud with transphobic writer J. K. Rowling, calling her reaction to the United Kingdom’s Supreme Court banning of gender affirming care for minors as “heinous LOSER behavior.”
Most notably, Pedro’s simple choice of clothing at his 50th birthday party, and more publicly a few weeks later at the April 22, 2025, premiere of Marvel’s “Thunderbolts” in London.
Pedro in London (April 22, 2025)
Pedro’s choice of shirt was more than just a fashion statement.
“Pedro and his stylist Julie [Ragolia] were some of the first celebrities that reached out after we debuted this T-shirt,” said the shirt’s designer, Conner Ives. “I’m pretty sure they bought two, which was extremely kind and supportive of this cause.”
The “cause” cited by Ives was a fund-raising for the Trans Lifeline, a hotline established for trans people in crisis.
The $75 shirts were sold through Ives’s online store, and the pre-sale orders in the wake of Pedro’s publicity raised more than $70,000 for the non-profit.
As for Lux, she is awaiting the release of her Spanish language film, “Miss Carbón.” It features her in her first starring role, as the real life Carlita Rodríguez, a transgender woman from Argentina who became the first woman to work in her hometown coal mines.
Yes, Lux Pascal seems to have it all and it’s easy to feel jealous of her.
But as every trans person knows—nothing in life comes without a struggle. Your journey is made so much easier if you have the support of family. Especially if you have a big brother like Pedro who proudly wrote on his Instagram:
“Mi hermana, mi corazón, nuestra Lux.”
Pedro and Lux at “Fantastic Four” premiere (July 21, 2025)
BONUS: Magazine covers featuring the lovely Lux Pascal
YA REVISTA (Feb. 2021), L’OFFICIEL (April 2024), YA REVISTA (March 2022)
VELVET (Aug. 2022) and BAZAAR (July 2025)