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The actor Elliott Page confessed that he had an intense romance with his co-star of the movie “Juno”, Olivia Thirlbyand that they even had sex during filming.
“I was taken aback the moment I saw Olivia Thirlby,” wrote the 36-year-old actor in his new memoir, pageboy.
Page said it seems that he and Thirlby were the same age at the time, but he considered her “much older, capable and focused.” She added that it is “sexually open, far removed from where I was at the time. But the chemistry was palpable, I was drawn to it.”
The actor alleged that since they met they began to spend a lot of time together and that, just one day while they were in a hotel room, Thirlby “looked right at me and said bluntly: ‘I’m very attracted to you’”.
Thirlby was commissioned to give life to Page’s best friend in the 2007 film Teenagers. “I had a desire for her, she made me want in a new, hopeful way,” Page wrote.
The actor explained that Olivia and he they started having sex everywhere. “His hotel room, in our trailers at work, once in a small private room at a restaurant. We thought we were being subtle. Being intimate with Olivia helped dispel my embarrassment. I didn’t see a glimmer of it in her eyes and I wanted that, to stop feeling miserable for who I am,” she wrote.
For his part, Olivia Thirlby came out as bisexual in 2011 during an interview and is currently married to Jacques Pienaar. While Page came out as gay in 2014 and transgender in December 2020.
Elliot confessed that he got permission to “cut your hair like a boy” at the age of 9 and that was the first time he felt like one. Throughout his childhood he asked his mother on several occasions if he could be a boy, but his work in the mecca of cinema -especially in the early years of his career- forced him to present an ultra-feminine image with which he did not he felt comfortable.
At that time, putting on a t-shirt made for a woman made her feel generalized discomfort and all the outfits that were sent to her as a gift seemed to her like “costumes”. The period of isolation during the coronavirus pandemic finally offered him the opportunity to face the internal struggle that had always defined everything related to his gender identity and also marked the end of his marriage to the dancer. Emma Portner, with whom she continues to maintain a beautiful friendship.
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