In case you’ve checked the remark part of the actor’s Instagram recently, you’ll have observed issues getting a little bit…unusual. In brief, in recent weeks, there have been quite a few viral social media posts claiming that Pedro is inappropriately bodily shut together with his feminine costars, comparable to Fantastic Four‘s Vanessa Kirby.
The factor is, there isn’t any proof that any of the hand-holding or hugging is nonconsensual. Most people implying this are additionally pretending that Pedro is uniquely affectionate with ladies, which is plainly unfaithful. So, the place did this come from?
As Vanity Fair famous, defenders of J.Ok. Rowling beforehand used a clip of Vanessa and Pedro at Comedian-Con to recommend one thing untoward was occurring after Pedro criticized the creator for her anti-trans views (Vanessa herself has mentioned that she discovered holding arms with him to be a “beautiful gesture). It seems like that very same line of bad-faith reasoning has now been jumped on by misogynists who do not perceive consent, nevertheless it’s tough to pinpoint precisely the place the flood began.
Pedro himself had stored quiet about the entire thing till yesterday, when he started replying to among the spammy “I am watching you” Dexter GIFs on an unrelated publish hyping up the film Sand Mama. Most of his responses had been emoji-based:
Although he did provide some poor souls a hug:
And even complimented one person on their art work:
It is not the one time Pedro has responded to hate feedback. Take, for instance, his replies to commenters criticizing his protection of trans rights earlier this yr:
In some methods, it’s fairly humorous that “ladies like hugging him” was the perfect they might do…