Washington: Hollywood star Elliot Page opened up about coping with gender dysphoria on the peak of his fame as a toddler actor prior to his current transition.
According to Fox News, Page gave his first televised interview since transitioning to Oprah Winfrey on Apple TV+.
During the sit-down launched on Friday, the ‘Umbrella Academy’ star recalled the frequent panic attacks he struggled with behind closed doorways at film premieres and glamorous after-parties. Page particularly pointed to a second the place he “collapsed” at an after-party for ‘Inception’.
The Christopher Nolan-directed movie starring Page, Leonardo DiCaprio and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, was launched in 2010. Page mirrored on the craze surrounding the film’s launch and mentioned, “There was so much press, so many premieres all around the world. I was wearing dresses and heels to pretty much every single event.”
Page mentioned his supervisor “really believed she was helping me” by offering him a number of costume choices to put on for the events. However, Page now recalls it did the alternative.
“But we got back to the room and she was like ‘I have a surprise.’ I already had to wear a dress I already had picked out and I went in and there were three dresses laid out, like new dresses to maybe see, and I just like, I lost it,” Page mentioned.
Page informed Winfrey and added, “It was like a cinematic moment, like the kind of thing that would be in a movie, you know? That night after the premiere and at the after-party I collapsed and that was something that’s happened frequently in my life, usually corresponding with a panic attack.”
Despite the hardships, Page has celebrated his transition in current months in interviews during which he expresses he’s now ready to stay authentically. Speaking to Winfrey, he credited the numerous trans girls of coloration for paving the way in which for others and placing “their lives on the line throughout history.” Page first got here out as transgender in December 2020 on Twitter.
