Pedro Pascal’s Sister Lux Pascal Brings a True Story to Life in Spanish-Language Film ‘Miss Carbón’ as a Trans Latina Miner

Pedro Pascal's Sister Lux Pascal Brings a True Story to Life in Spanish-Language Film 'Miss Carbón' as a Trans Latina Miner
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The face on the poster looks skyward, tears like mineral shards glistening on her cheeks. That is Lux Pascal, an actress of Chilean descent, standing still in the heavy silence before the mine. In Miss Carbón, Pascal plays Carlita, the first woman to set foot inside the shafts of a mine in an Argentine region that, for generations, treated women as a curse underground.

Written and directed by Agustina Marci, the Spanish-language film draws from the true story of Carla Antonella Rodríguez, a Latina trans woman who defied gender norms and superstition to become a miner. In doing so, she cracked open the walls of a world that had refused her.

A Story Buried Beneath Centuries of Superstition

In northern Argentina, folklore dictated that women could not enter mines. They were said to bring collapse, death and misfortune. The belief kept generations of women outside the entrance, often with shovels in hand and dirt under their nails, but never allowed inside.

Carlita changed that. Her transition and gender-affirming journey intersected with the brutal hierarchy of the male mining workforce. She stepped into a space that had been forbidden and refused to leave. In the film, Lux Pascal gives life to that resistance. In one moment from the trailer, her face holds defiance as machinery roars around her.

The role demands presence without spectacle. Pascal carries it with a quiet force that never pleads for acceptance. Instead, it asserts what has always been true: she belongs.

Director Marci Finds Her Subject’s Strength Unshakable

“The courage shown by Carlita to fulfill her dream of being a miner and also a woman is something that pierced my soul from the day I read the script for the first time,” said director Agustina Marci. She saw in Carlita not only defiance, but also a necessary fracture in the cycle that kept women and trans women outside the system.

“She is a prime example of what dreaming can achieve,” Marci added. “There is still a lot of ground to overcome as women and trans women. But she, in that sense, brings hope.”

The film follows Carlita not through ceremony, but through grit. Her challenges are not woven into a narrative of exceptionalism. Instead, they are part of a routine battle, fought every day by those who are told they do not belong.

Lux Pascal Brings Her Own History to the Role

Lux Pascal transitioned in 2020 and came out publicly in 2021. She has spoken openly about how her brother, beloved Latino actor Pedro Pascal, supported her along the way. “What makes [Pedro] so fabulous is that he wears all of his humanity on his sleeve, and he doesn’t hide who he is,” she told The Hollywood Reporter.

“That’s the main lesson I’ve gotten from him: there’s no reason for me to hide who I am, right?”

That same honesty is present in her portrayal of Carlita. The role asks for more than performance. It asks the actress to remember.

Miss Carbón opens in Spanish cinemas on 13 June. The international release date remains unknown. Alongside Pascal, the cast includes Paco León, Lautaro Zera and Simone Mercado.

The poster alone tells the beginning. The rest will play out in silence, stone, and dust.

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