Actor Javier Bardem has a big problem with some world leaders and their “toxic masculinity.”

During the Cannes festival, Bardem weighed in with his thoughts, claiming “thousands” are dead because of the male egos belonging to “Trump, Putin, and Netanyahu.”

“The big balls man saying ‘my c*ck is bigger than yours, and I’m going to bomb the sh*t out of you is a f*cking male toxic behavior that is creating thousands of dead people.”

Bardem is a pro-Palestine activist and vocal critic of Israel who believes genocide is happening in Gaza even after the war ended.

“You can fight against it, you can try to justify it, explain it. That is a fact. You can be against it, or you can justify it,” Bardem told reporters on Sunday, according to Mediaite. “If you justify it with your silence or with your support, you are pro-genocide. Those are facts, for me.”

The actor/activist’s “toxic” comments made it to X and caught the attention of Elon Musk.

[he said after sipping daintily on his lukewarm soy latte]

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 18, 2026

Plenty more X users slammed the actor for his take:

This is incredibly stupid. His simplistic explanation conveniently avoids the human rights issue posed by the regimes they’re bombing. Guess he’s ok with thousands of innocent protesters getting taken out by Iran?
Masculinity saved this world and civilized society countless times

— Hugh (Friggin) Dingus (@AllDeezAliens) May 17, 2026

Javier Bardem doesn’t care about the 45 thousand peaceful protestors that were killed in 2 days in January in Iran , on top of all their other killings, hanging people for peacefully protesting. They hang gay men for years -‘d years , but Javier doesn’t care about Iranian people…

— pearljohn (@mjohn55) May 18, 2026

Thinking about other dudes balls, stunning and brave. And stunning.

— Enguerrand VII de Coucy (@ingelramdecoucy) May 17, 2026

So his idea is let Iran make a nuclear weapon to kill millions but that’s OK because it’s anti-Israel? Or let Hamas steal aid money to fund terrorism instead of helping their people?

My goodness is he retarded or what?

— ForgetAboutIt (@strong_side_24) May 17, 2026

You’re lecturing us on violence? Have you seen any of your movies?https://t.co/5jS2GCTDMO

— WestHarlm (@WestHarlm) May 17, 2026

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