Elliot Page isn't holding back in his new memoir,. The 36-year-old star opens up about his journey transitioning from female to male and the struggles the transgender actor has faced throughout his life.From an early age, Page writes he was a victim of abuse and grooming.
Saying an unnamed director «groomed» him as a teenager, Page writes that this person texted him regularly and gifted him books.Page writes that one night the director took Page to dinner and stroked his thigh under the table.«You have to make the move, I can’t,» Page claims the director whispered to him, per .Page also alleges that he was forced to wear a dress and heels to the 2007 premiere of his hit film, by the movie's director, Jason Reitman, though he doesn't specifically name Reitman in the memoir.«I was being told to lie and hide.
It puzzled me to watch cis straight actors play queer and trans characters and be revered. Nominations, wins, people exclaiming, ‘How brave!'» Page writes. «Hollywood is built on leveraging queerness.
Tucking it away when needed, pulling it out when beneficial, while patting themselves on the back. Hollywood doesn’t lead the way, it responds, it follows, slowly and far behind.
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