Elliot Page isn’t done pushing for change.
14.06.2023 - 01:07 / etcanada.com
Elliot Page is looking back on their time on the set of “Inception”.
The actor starred in the 2010 Christopher Nolan-directed film alongside Leonardo Dicaprio. It would go on to be nominated for eight Oscars including Best Picture, and while Page was proud of the work, it was also a dark memory for him.
In a passage from his new self-memoir Pageboy, he admitted he developed a stress-induced case of Shingles on set.
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“Shingles communicated the stress my body felt. It popped out of my spine while filming Inception when I was twenty-two,” he recalled, via DailyMail. “Despite everyone being delightful to work with, I felt out of place. In a cast full of cis men, I did not understand the role I found myself in.”
Page, who had not come out about their sexuality or identified as trans at the time, was constantly worried about being replaced.
“For the first two weeks of the film, I joked I would be recast with Keira Knightley, and rightfully so,” he shared.
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The surprising admissions comes with other bombshell revelations such as the star’s confession their mental health suffered terribly when wearing feminine clothing for roles in films at the time.
“I would imagine myself in a woman’s costume from the mid-nineteenth century. The dress, the shoes, the hair, flashed before my eyes. It was too much after having put on the mask for awards season,” said the “Umbrella Academy” star.
Elliot Page isn’t done pushing for change.
Following the release of Elliot Page’s memoir PageBoy, the actor reveals why now was the right time to share his story with the world and elaborates on the chapters where he talks about his childhood and his mother, who grew to support his identity.
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Zack Sharf Digital News Director Elliot Page writes in his new memoir, “Pageboy,” that filming the 2017 “Flatliners” remake was “a true mess from the very beginning” and a “shit show” due to unsafe stunt work and instances of racism and queerphobia on set (via Entertainment Weekly). Or, as Page puts it: “It went off the rails.” In an entire chapter devoted to the making of the Niels Arden Oplev-directed thriller, Page alleges he and co-star Kiersey Clemons were put in unsafe working conditions during one stunt scene. “We were getting ready for a car stunt when Kiersey and I realized that everyone had a built-in thick seat belt, except for us,” Page writes. “No restraints, a basic safety measure of the carefully orchestrated, expensive and elaborate stunt that hadn’t been thought through… We looked to the various stunt crew members strapping the others in, perplexed, questioning why we weren’t being secured for the scene. ‘Why does everyone else have a safety belt but not us?’ we’d inquired.”
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Elliot Page has detailed his experience filming the reboot of Flatliners, describing it as “a true mess”.The Umbrella Academy star – who appeared in the 2017 remake of the ’90s psychological horror thriller – has alleged in his new memoir Pageboy (via Entertainment Weekly) that there were unsafe stunts, racism, misogyny and queerphobia on the set.He first detailed a scene in which he and co-star Kiersey Clemons found themselves performing a stunt without adequate safety measures.“We were getting ready for a car stunt when Kiersey and I realised that everyone had a built-in thick seat belt, except for us,” Page wrote. “No restraints, a basic safety measure of the carefully orchestrated, expensive, and elaborate stunt that hadn’t been thought through… We looked to the various stunt crew members strapping the others in, perplexed, questioning why we weren’t being secured for the scene.
Elliot Page is opening up about a role he turned down years ago and why he made that decision.
Elliot Page has detailed a painful battle with Shingles when he was just 22, partly due to the stress of his personal life and being surrounded by cis men while filming Inception. The actor became a household name overnight when he starred in classic teen movie Juno, and went on to appear alongside the likes of Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Goron-Levitt and Ed Hardy in the 2010 blockbuster. Inception was filmed before Elliot, then presenting as female, came out as gay, and a decade before he revealed he was transgender.
Elliot Page admits he had a hard time filming one of his biggest roles.In an excerpt from his memoir,, via, the 36-year-old actor revealed that he felt «out of place» while filming 2010's -- which led to a shingles flare-up that «popped out of my spine.» «Despite everyone being delightful to work with, I felt out of place...I did not understand the role I found myself in,» Page wrote, noting that he felt that way as a result of working with «a cast full of cis men.» The film was directed by Christopher Nolan and starred Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Tom Hardy and Cillian Murphy.Though he had no problems with the men on the set, the star said he thought he would be recast by another famous actor at the time.«For the first two weeks of the film, I joked I would be recast with Keira Knightley, and rightfully so,» he wrote.Page came out as trans in 2020. In his book, the actor speaks about his rise from child stardom and opens up about his journey transitioning from female to male and the struggles the transgender actor has faced throughout his life.Inside the memoir, Page writes he was a victim of abuse and grooming, saying an unnamed director «groomed» him as a teenager.
Academy Award nominee Elliot Page (The Umbrella Academy) is set to star opposite Hillary Baack (Sound of Metal) in Close to You, a new film from BAFTA-winning writer-director Dominic Savage (I Am…), which has wrapped production in Canada.
Elliot Page once declined a big movie role to prioritize his mental health.
Elliot Page has revealed that he once went on a double date with Leonardo DiCaprio and his mum.The Inception co-stars worked together on Christopher Nolan’s 2010 thriller, and Page recalled in a new interview how DiCaprio set Page up with a friend of his.In his new memoir Pageboy, released this week, the Juno actor discussed how he tried dating men even though he knew he wanted to be with women in order to try and “be the person so many wanted me to be”.“Like in high school, I’d wanted to convince myself it was possible, that I could enjoy it or at least tolerate it,” he wrote.Page added that he formed a “lovely connection” with a friend of DiCaprio’s called Pete after he visited the Inception set. “When I saw Leo next, I told him I liked his friend, to which he responded that his friend liked me, too,” he wrote.Pete, Page, DiCaprio and his mother then all went on a date together to Universal Studios, as Page recalled: “For our first date, we went to Universal Studios with Leo and his mother.
Elliot Page has spoken of the pressure to remain closeted in Hollywood, before his decision to come out first as gay and, subsequently, trans.
—including details of a two-year secret love affair with a woman and fellow actor who was still in the closet.Page doesn't identify the actress by name, and we don't know if this person is out privately or publicly yet, so he refers to her in the book as “Ryan” which is how her number was saved in his phone. According to Page, he and Ryan first met at a coffee shop in LA, and fell deeply in love while filming a movie together.
Elliot Page has said he “got sick” on the set of Christopher Nolan’s Inception due to stress.Page, who has just published his new memoir, Pageboy, appeared in the film as Ariadne in the hit film alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy and Cillian Murphy.In the memoir, Page revealed that he came down with a case of shingles, which “popped out of my spine” while filming. Page said he thought this was because of the stress caused by being part of “a cast full of cis men”.He explained: “Despite everyone being delightful to work with, I felt out of place… I did not understand the role I found myself in.
Juno, Elliot Page and co-star Olivia Thirlby were apparently hooking up…a lot. And Page just revealed how joyful the relationship was during a formative time in his life.Thirlby was the "first woman I had a suitably consensual sexual relationship with," the Oscar nominee writes in his just-released memoir Pageboy, per . Both actors would have been around 19 or 20 at the time of filming, but, writes Page, "she seemed so much older, capable and centered.
Pageboy, actor Elliot Page has opened up about their past romance with Kate Mara.Page revealed the relationship happened “right after” they came out as gay in 2014. In 2020, Page later came out as a trans man.In an extract from the book shared with People, Page said: “The first person I fell for after my heart was broken was Kate Mara.”“She had a boyfriend at the time, the lovely and talented Max Minghella.
Elliot Page isn’t leaving any steamy details out of his tell-all memoir.
Elliot Page is revealing another bombshell in his new memoir,. In the book, the 36-year-old actor claims he and his co-star, Olivia Thirlby, «started having sex all the time» after an intense makeout session while filming the 2007 coming-of-age dramedy.According to , Pages writes he was «taken aback the moment I saw» Thirlby.