Pedro Pascal explains what c**ty means to Vanessa Kirby

Last updated: July 17, 2025 6:52 PM

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The more you know! Pedro Pascal has once again shown his LGBTQ+ allyship by smoothly explaining the meaning of “cunty” to his Fantastic Four co-star Vanessa Kirby.

Lovingly dubbed “the internet’s daddy,” Pascal is currently promoting his upcoming Marvel film, The Fantastic Four: First Steps.

In the Marvel Studios movie, Pascal portrays Mister Fantastic, aka Dr. Reed Richards, a brilliant scientist and inventor who is considered Earth’s most intelligent person.

London Launch Of ‘The Fantastic Four: The First Steps’ — Pedro Pascal and Vanessa Kirby at the Launch of ‘The Fantastic Four: The First Steps’ at the BFI Imax in London on July 10, 2025. Photo Credit: Ian West/PA Images/INSTARimages

During a recent chat with Australian media outlet Pedestrian TV, Pascal hilariously broke down the meaning of “cunty” for Kirby, who plays Sue Storm/Invisible Woman.

When the interviewer mentioned that Kirby has become “a social media icon” for her “forcefield snatched c*nty fierceness face,” the actress responded uncertainly, “Oh, God! I don’t know if that’s a good thing.”

Pascal jumped in with his iconic explanation: “It’s a good thing, babe. C*nty face just means fierce, fabulous, beautiful, strong. It’s good, it’s good.”

While the C-word has very misogynistic roots, it was reclaimed in New York’s Black and Latino queer ballroom scene during the 1980s as a way “to forge a linguistic identity separate from the straight, white norms of the English language,” linguist Adam Aleksic told Glamour.

After being reclaimed “as a form of identity” among Black and Latino gay men in ballroom spaces, it spread throughout the gay community in the 90s and early 2000s. Like “slay,” another LGBTQ+ term, it entered mainstream vocabulary through millions of queer and ally viewers of RuPaul’s Drag Race.

Comic Con Experience Mexico 2025 - 'The Fantastic Four: First Steps' Photocall — Pedro Pascal and Vanessa Kirby at the Photocall for ‘The Fantastic Four: First Steps’ as part of the the 2nd edition of Comic Con Experience Mexico 2025 ‘CCXP’ at Centro Banamex on May 31, 2025. Photo Credit: Carlos Tischler/EyePix/INSTARimages

Aleksic noted that in ballroom culture, “serving cnt” or “giving cnt” was more literal, meaning “you are giving femininity.” Today, the word has evolved to be “sort of a synonym of ‘camp’, sort of [meaning] ironically cool”.

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