Elliot Page once declined a big movie role to prioritize his mental health. In his new memoir, Pageboy, the 36-year-old Canadian actor, who came out as transgender in 2020, revealed that he wanted to “kill” himself when he was tasked with wearing feminine clothes on the movie set. “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. READ MORE: Elliot Page On Secret Relationship With Closeted Co-Star: ‘It Wasn’t Sustainable, The Lying, The Anxiety, The Disgust’ “I understood that if I were to do it, I would want to kill myself.” The movie was apparently based on a “famous book,” and Page was set to play a “sought-after” character.
Ultimately, the feminine role proved to bee “too much” for Elliot, as he hadn’t transitioned yet and felt like his “personal life was suffocating [him] already.” “I pushed myself to dispel the truth for fear of banishment, but I was despondent, trapped in a dismal disguise.
An empty, aimless shell,” Page continued. READ MORE: Elliot Page Says He Had Sex With ‘Juno’ Co-Star Olivia Thirlby ‘All The Time’ During Filming “It wasn’t easy to explain to my reps that I couldn’t take on a role because of clothing.
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