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Elliot Page Once Turned Down a Film Role Over Character's Feminine Clothing

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Elliot Page is opening up about a role he turned down years ago and why he made that decision. The 36-year-old Oscar-nominated actor, who currently stars in Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy, just published his memoir “Pageboy.” In the book, Elliot talks about a role he was offered when he was still presenting as female.

The “sought-after” role was for a project based on a “famous book.” Keep reading to find out more… “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,” Elliot wrote in the book (via Page Six).

He added, “I understood that if I were to do it, I would want to kill myself.” Elliot wrote that it was “too much” to play a feminine role after already feeling like he was “suffocating” in real life. “I pushed myself to dispel the truth for fear of banishment, but I was despondent, trapped in a dismal disguise.

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