Elliot Page remembers ‘erosive and damaging’ discomfort throughout puberty
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lliot Page says he skilled “a degree of discomfort that was very erosive and damaging” whereas going by puberty.
The 36-year-old actor, who got here out as transgender in 2020, mentioned the method was “just the beginning of really sort of disconnecting from myself”.
Page made the remarks throughout a preview clip for a brand new Pride Month tv particular for ABC News.
Titled, The Freedom to Exist with Elliot Page: A Soul of a Nation Presentation, the particular is because of air June 6, coinciding with the publication of the actor’s memoir – Pageboy.
I do not assume I even at that time had most likely even heard the phrase transgender. If it did not come up, it could be, you recognize, briefly in well being class with the sound of laughter.
“When my body started to change, clothes sat on me differently, and all of that was just the beginning of really sort of disconnecting from myself and feeling a degree of discomfort that was very erosive and damaging,” he mentioned, in a preview clip.
“I don’t think I even at that point had probably even heard the word transgender. If it didn’t come up, it would be, you know, briefly in health class with the sound of laughter.
“The experiences I had in regards to bullying, it certainly only encourages the shame that literally makes you sick. The hiding, the self disgust.
“‘There’s something wrong with me’ – that narrative.”
He continued: “I think with gender dysphoria, it’s being assigned a gender at birth based on your genitalia and that not being the reality of who you are, (a) sort of incongruence and disconnect with that just continues to chip away at you…
“I think it especially became complicated as an actor because people would just go, ‘you’re an actor just put the f****** clothes on.
“But needless to say it was so much more than that.”
Page is best-known for his Oscar-nominated function in 2007 coming-of-age drama Juno, and extra lately for starring in Netflix superhero collection The Umbrella Academy.
He has additionally starred alongside Leonardo DiCaprio and Cillian Murphy in Christopher Nolan’s 2011 thriller Inception and the X-Men collection.
Page got here out as homosexual in 2014 and was married to choreographer Emma Portner earlier than asserting their divorce in January 2021.
Announcing the title and launch date of his memoir in December 2022, the actor mentioned he hopes it’ll assist others really feel much less alone and “seen, no matter who they are or what path they are on”.