Pedro Pascal knows that the best way to fight hate is with love. During his recent Fantastic Four: First Steps press tour, the actor has been at the center of a suspiciously timed social media backlash, in which online trolls have accused him of being too physically affectionate with his co-stars . Notably, these aren’t really accusations of sexual impropriety, but rather strange assertions that he hugs or holds hands with his female co-stars too much. While Pascal has stayed silent on this bizarre controversy, he finally acknowledged that haters by responding to a string of rude comments on his Instagram.
The anti-Pascal posts went viral towards the end of July, many of which used similar GIFs from Dexter to denote suspicion of the actor. The abrupt and sound-alike nature of t