Juno star Elliot Page’s new memoir, page boyIt’s an immersive journey through the actor’s life spanning everything from his journey as a trans celebrity to his contentious relationship with his overbearing stepmother, who nicknames him “Skid Mark”, to the complex romantic relationships that take him down a difficult path. the most difficult times of his professional life.
Already revealed by People that Page had a secret crush on actress Kate Mara in 2014; The relationship was co-signed by Max Minghella, who was Mara’s boyfriend at the time.
But in page boyPage, which has been extensively reviewed by The Daily Beast, reveals another previously unknown relationship.
while shooting Juno, The 2007 drama Diablo Cody, which made him a household name, details a relationship behind secret doors with Page, co-star Olivia Thirlby.
“I was stunned the moment I saw Olivia Thirlby,” Page writes. “We stopped in the hotel room. Billie Holliday played. She was about to start preparing lunch when she looked directly at me and said directly, “I’m really impressed with you.” We started having sex: in his hotel room, here in our trailers, and once in a tiny, private room in a restaurant.”
“Ironically, playing a pregnant teenager was one of the first times I felt some autonomy on set,” Page added. “I was wearing a fake belly but not being overly feminised. For me, Juno It was the symbol of the possible, a void beyond the double.”
In one particularly heartbreaking passage, Page describes how, at age 18, Page was sexually assaulted by an unnamed female crew member who offered to go apartment hunting.
“I was standing in front of the sofa in the empty living room, I felt it holding me,” Page writes. He pressed his face to mine, a kind of kiss. The next thing I knew I was on the carpet, the hard floor on my back. I didn’t say no, I didn’t resist, I just stiffened. I didn’t make a sound because I was lying on the carpet. Slowly, then faster, his body began to dry up on me, his weight rubbing my spine against the floor. His eyes were closed, his head was turned towards me, his face was sweaty. He sighed, blew and began to moan. I didn’t move, I just looked at the ceiling, then closed my eyes, then looked up again as he came. It was only the second time I had kissed a woman and it was the first time I had seen someone come in person.
When he was young, Page was also raised by a director.
“Like the books he gave me, the messages he wrote frequently made me feel special. He took me to dinner at The Swan in Queen West. He whispered under the table, stroking my buttocks: ‘You have to act, I can’t.’”
Page also says she was subjected to a transphobic attack on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles in the spring of 2022.
As the actor was walking to a grocery store, a tall man caught Page’s eyes, Page wrote and started shouting at him, “I’m going to beat you up with gays, faggot! That’s why I need a gun!” Page writes that with the help of grocery store workers, he narrowly avoided harm.
The good thing is, Page had once arranged a date by Leonardo DiCaprio…
“While shooting BeginningA friend of Leonardo DiCaprio’s visited and we bonded nicely,” Page writes. The next time I saw Leo, I told him I liked his friend, and he said that his friend also liked me. We went to Universal Studios with Leo and his mom for our first date. Peter and I sat close at the toys, our hips touching.”
But he also found Beginning Set it to be a pressure cooker.
“Zone popped up my spine while I was filming Beginning When I was 22,” Page added. “I didn’t understand the role I found myself in in a cast full of gay men. I felt out of place even though everyone enjoyed working together. I was going to reprise with Keira Knightly in the first two weeks of the movie I was kidding, and rightfully so. Shingles conveyed the stress my body was feeling, what my words couldn’t convey.