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<\/p>\nElliot Page has revealed that he got shingles while filming Inception due to the stress he was feeling at the time about his gender identity<\/p>\n
The 36-year-old Umbrella Academy star \u2013 who came out as transgender in December 2020 \u2013 isn\u2019t holding back with his new memoir Pageboy, sharing in great detail his experience as a famous trans person in life, and Hollywood in general.<\/p>\n
That includes his role as Ariadne in Christopher Nolan\u2019s 2010 hit movie which also starred Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Joseph Gordon Levitt, and Cillian Murphy.<\/p>\n
According to Insider, Page penned that he came down with a case of shingles \u2013 which is a viral infection that causes a painful rash \u2013 during the film\u2019s shoot, and contended that it was caused due to pressure of being part of \u201ca cast full of cis men\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cShingles popped out of my spine while filming Inception when I was twenty-two,\u201d he wrote, per the publication. \u201cDespite everyone being delightful to work with, I felt out of place.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Canadian star continued: \u201cIn a cast full of cis men, I did not understand the role I found myself in,\u201d adding, \u201cFor the first two weeks of the film I joked I would be recast with Keira Knightley, and rightfully so.\u201d<\/p>\n
Page\u2019s character in the blockbuster was an architecture student whose job is to construct the dreamscapes. They were recruited by Dom Cobb (DiCaprio) and Arthur (Gordon-Levitt) to be part of their team, along with Eames (Hardy) and Yusuf (Dileep Rao).<\/p>\n
He filmed the movie more than a decade before he underwent his gender transition. It was also before he had come out publicly that he (while still presenting as female) was a lesbian.<\/p>\n
The Whip It actor went on to discuss how he felt trying to explore relationships with other women, revealing that at the time of the film release, he was in a secret romance with a woman who was \u201cout, and surrounded by a community of queer women\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was not settled, I still felt out of place, stirring up the dust. A pinball of projection, I internalized the chaos. It left me feeling bereft of hope,\u201d Page recalled. \u201cMy body hoarded the unexamined emotions, sensations, wants, and needs.<\/p>\n
\u201cEasy sentences prepared in my brain, stuck. They were visible to me, written out, I heard the voice but my mouth refused to cooperate. Just the tick tick tick of the windup toy, or nothing at all,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
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Page made several other revelations in the book \u2013 which was released this week on June 6 \u2013 including that he had an affair with actress Kate Mara, who was dating The Handmaid\u2019s Tale actor Max Minghella at the time.<\/p>\n
\u201c[The relationship] was right after I\u2019d come out as gay and it was a time of exploration and also heartbreak,\u201d he said. \u201cI think my relationship, or whatever you want to call it with Kate, very much encapsulates a certain dynamic that I consistently found myself in, which was falling for people that \u2013 I think a lot of us do this \u2013 who aren\u2019t fully available.\u201d<\/p>\n
In addition to this, the Hard Candy star claimed that while filming Juno, he would have \u201call the time\u201d with his co-star Olivia Thirlby, saying that they hooked up in a \u201chotel room, in our trailers at work, once in a tiny, private room in a restaurant,\u201d per Daily Beast.<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cIronically, playing a pregnant teenager was one of the first times I felt a modicum of autonomy on set. I was wearing a fake belly but not being hyperfeminized. For me, Juno was emblematic of what could be possible, a space beyond the binary.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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