Lux Pascal is a woman carving a path for more authenticity in Hollywood. She is the lead of “Miss Cabrón,” which is currently showing in Spain. In her first lead role in a feature film, she is telling the story of a trans woman who wanted to be a coal miner in her town in Argentina. Lux’s brother, Pedro Pascal, recently interviewed her for ELLE Magazine. She opened up about searching her own transness and experience to portray Carla Antonella Rodríguez for “Miss Cabrón.”

Lux Pascal is following in her brother’s footprints, but carving her own path

Pedro Pascal recently interviewed Lux about her latest projects, their childhood, and the early acceptance that shaped her life. Pedro interviewed Lux for ELLE Magazine, and the two touched on multiple topics, including their shared love for acting and Hollywood.

When Lux was a child, the Pascal family moved back to Chile, and Pedro stayed in the United States to pursue his acting career. During those years, Pedro would bring Lux CDs and VHS tapes when he visited. Those gifts left a lasting impression on Lux.

“I just remember every time you would fly in, it felt like Christmas Day—when you are a kid, and you’re going to open all these presents, and you can’t sleep the night before because you’re just too excited,” Lux says during the ELLE Magazine interview.

It was this exposure to Hollywood at a young age that set Lux on course to study the arts. Lux took her training seriously, studying at the renowned Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. She went on to graduate from Juilliard with an MFA in Acting. It was at Juilliard that director Agustina Macri approached Lux about “Miss Cabrón.”

At first, she wasn’t sure about playing the role in “Miss Cabrón”

The youngest Pascal sibling was wary about taking on the role of Carla Antonella Rodríguez. The featured subject of the biopic is a trans woman who becomes the first female coal miner in her town in Argentina. Rodríguez’s story explores gender, trans visibility, machismo, and the push and pull of progress with tradition. As a trans woman, Lux was hesitant to take the role.

“Being trans is something that I have had to live throughout my whole life, so I wasn’t sure I wanted to portray that onscreen,” Lux told Pedro in the interview. “Or I felt that I was too beyond my womanhood to be like, Do I really have to step back? So I didn’t take it seriously until I read the script, and then I met the real Carlita—the woman the story’s based on—and I was like, Oh, I am in love with her.”

The experience of portraying Rodríguez for the film changed Lux’s perception. It gave the actress a chance to really dig into her own experience and explore her own transness. She was also able to work with the director to give Rodríguez the respect she deserved as a trans woman.

“Agustina Macri was generous enough and aware enough to let me guide a lot of the language around transness and be like, ‘Hey, can we not make it her sole focus? Can we not fetishize this? Can we just focus on her humanness and her heart? There’s so much more there.’ And she was like, ‘Absolutely. That’s what we’re going to do,’” Lux explained to Pedro.

You can read the full interview from ELLE Magazine here.

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