Elliot writes about being on the 'precipice' of finding himself in an excerpt from his forthcoming memoir, Page Boy.
had his first experience at a gay bar just three months before Juno changed his entire life.
The actor, who is one of Hollywood’s most prominent transgender talents, opens up in his forthcoming memoir about being on the “precipice” of self-discovery before fame forced him into the closet following the film’s 2007 release.on Thursday, he explains how the night out “was the first time I had been to a gay bar and would be my last for a long time.”
Just 20 at the time, Page describes his struggle with his identity, saying, “Shame had been drilled into my bones since I was my tiniest self, and I struggled to rid my body of that old toxic and erosive marrow.”He found those emotions melt away while on the dance floor with his date, Paula. “There was a joy in the room,” Page writes. “It lifted me, forced a reaction in the jaw, an uncontrolled, steady smile.”Feeling freed from the “antagonising, cruel voice that flooded my head whenever I felt desire,” he kissed his date.
“Maybe for a second, I could allow myself pleasure,” the “Inception” actor writes, later adding, “Here I was on the precipice. Getting closer to my desires, my dreams, me, without the unbearable weight of the self-disgust I’d carried for so long.”Page shot to superstardom after the 2007 release of Juno, in which he played a pregnant teenage girl.
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