Elliot Page

The actor also says what we all knew: "Juno" is a trans film.

In the spread itself, he’s featured wearing a variety of monochromatic outfits: a white camp shirt unbuttoned at the bottom to expose his chest, patterned trousers and a pin-stripe shirt, a checkered suit worn over a Cheap Trick band tee. “Instead, you have ideas blossoming in your mind, not constant feelings of shame and self-hatred.” The actor is featured on the cover of the summer issue of Esquire wearing the classic transmasc uniform of a white undershirt, black pants, and a little chain necklace.

Page pinpointed one moment during the “Juno” rollout in which executives at the film's distributor, Fox Searchlight, demanded he wear a dress on the red carpet.

“And they took me in a big rush to one of those fancy stores on Bloor Street. They had me wear a dress, and…that was that. So I said I wanted to wear a suit, and Fox Searchlight was basically like, ‘No, you need to wear a dress,'” Page said. Elliot Page opened up to Esquire magazine about how difficult it was on his mental health to have to endure the awards season press tour for “ Juno” while being in the closet.

For an Esquire cover story timed to LGBTQ Pride Month in June 2022, Elliot Page opens up about the joys, the hardships he felt after he came out as ...

"I know that may sound strange, but I can’t stress enough the degree of discomfort and struggle that I was experiencing that got in the way of everything. He recalled being so "distraught" when he was told that he couldn't play soccer with the boys anymore. He said that he was fearful the stranger might get violent with him if he responded. The hatred and the cruelty is so much more incessant," Page added. “I can’t overstate the biggest joy, which is really seeing yourself," he said. As a kid, Page remembered what it was like to grow up as a female to a mother who was a minister’s daughter.

“For me, euphoria is simply the act of waking up, making my coffee, and sitting down with a book and being able to read,” he told Esquire. In the story, Page ...

I’ll pick it up every once in awhile just to read that.” Written by an acclaimed Inuit throat singer, Split Tooth straddles poetry and prose to tell the story of an Inuit teenager coming of age in the spectral Arctic landscape, where she faces alcoholism, bullying, and teen pregnancy. Another memoir that made Page’s list is Brian Broome’s Punch Me Up to the Gods. “That is absolutely one of the best things I’ve ever read,” he said. Rounding out Page’s list is one final novel: Split Tooth, by Tanya Tagaq. “It’s one of the best things I’ve ever read,” he gushed. You can read McBee's account of writing for the third season of The Umbrella Academy here. Taylor is an extraordinary cartographer of Wallace’s loneliness, crafting a finely wrought story of academia, intimacy, and identity. “He’s such a phenomenal writer, it just floors you.” Real Life is a poignant, exacting story about Wallace, a biochemistry student at a Midwestern university, whose Blackness and queerness alienate him from his small community of friends. As for essay collections, Page tapped Alexander Chee’s How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. “Ohhhh,” he gushed. Her vulnerability on the page is an extraordinary feat. “For me, euphoria is simply the act of waking up, making my coffee, and sitting down with a book and being able to read,” he told Esquire. In the story, Page recommends six of his recent favorite reads, which run the gamut from novels to memoirs to collections of essays. Want to get a taste of Taylor’s distinctive style before diving headfirst into Real Life? Read an original story by him here at Esquire. When an adult Ford learns that her father will be released after almost thirty years, she is ushered to reckon with the heinous crime he committed. But for our Summer issue cover star Elliot Page, the most blissful mornings involve a daily practice of reading.

In his Esquire cover story, Elliot Page opens up about his transition and the role personal style plays in his transgender identity development.

And then all the ‘Juno’ press, all the photo shoots — Michael Cera was in slacks and sneakers.” I don’t not understand that reaction. “I get that people don’t understand.

The 'Umbrella Academy' star pens a guest column for 'Esquire' in which he recalls a troublesome experience during the 'Juno' premiere, describes the great ...

Page asks: “You wouldn’t say to J-Law or Rooney Mara or someone, are they worried about getting typecast as cis straight women?” The actor says that, at the same time, of course he wants a space where trans people are getting cast as cis characters. “I remember the premiere of Juno at the Toronto International Film Festival,” Page recalls, adding that he grew up working in Canada and wasn’t accustomed to the idea of having a stylist. Reflecting on the situation now, Page writes that it was “extremely fucked up,” and he shouldn’t have to treat it “like just this thing that happened—this somewhat normal thing.” The actor emphasizes: “It’s like: No. Regardless of me being trans! “I wish I could go back and experience it now. And then all the Juno press, all the photo shoots — Michael Cera was in slacks and sneakers. “There were moments of wanting to not be here, but that was just the sensation that I was left with.

In a new interview, the actor—who came out as transgender in 2020—talked about finding peace in his new body and recalled the dark place he lived in for many ...

And yet, for example, when I was shooting Inception, I could pretty much not leave whatever hotel I'd be staying in," he added. Of course," he said. I'll never be a woman." But that's mixed with: I wish people would understand that that shit literally did almost kill me," he said. Often he would miss meetings or be unable to read or get through a script because his anxiety was so bad. "Transphobia is just so, so, so extreme.

The Canadian actor, who grew up in Halifax and Toronto, found massive success in films like Juno, Inception, and X-Men, but as he tells Esquire, while his ...

Despite the glitz and glamour of Hollywood, Elliot also finds every opportunity to reiterate just how Canadian he is, through and through. It’s not a joke. It’s not a joke. “The people getting canceled are the trans people who are suffering, or killing themselves.” It’s clearly not a joke.” “I remember the premiere of Juno at the Toronto International Film Festival,” he begins. But: It’s not a joke. While The Umbrella Academy star doesn’t explicitly name anyone, he does have some choice words for comedians who use the lives and struggles of the trans community as a punchline. “Can I relate to the suicide problem among trans people? In terms of the actual quality of the response, it was what I expected: love and support from many people and hatred and cruelty and vitriol from so many others. I look back at the photos, and I’m like . . .?” At one point in the interview, he admits that while he was filming Inception, he had difficulties just leaving his hotel room or even showing up to a script reading session.

Elliot Page has penned an essay for Esquire about his experience as a transgender man.

"The greatest joy is just being able to feel present, literally, just to be present," he wrote. "I know I look different to others, but to me I'm just starting to look like myself," he wrote. "In terms of the actual quality of the response, it was what I expected: love and support from many people and hatred and cruelty and vitriol from so many others," he wrote.

Page went on to land an Academy Award nomination for portraying a sarcastic teen who struggles with putting her unborn child up for adoption. “When 'Juno' was ...

Page credits longtime pal and fellow Oscar nominee Catherine Keener for teaching him to “live my truth and to take care of my heart” prior to coming out. “I shouldn’t have to treat it like just this thing that happened — this somewhat normal thing. “So yeah, in my early to mid-twenties, I didn’t know how to tell people how unwell I was. I look back at the photos, and I’m like . . .?” “I’ve had to have plenty of devil’s-advocate conversations with cis people who were like, ‘Well, I’m not trans and I could wear a skirt!’ And it’s like, cool. Page, who came out as transgender in 2020, endured “intense depression, anxiety, and severe panic attacks” after his rise to stardom from the Jason Reitman-directed teen pregnancy dramedy.

Elliot Page has opened up about an appalling encounter with a “big dude” who shouted vile slurs and threatened to kill him.

“They had me wear a dress, and . . . that was that. “And then eventually, after him yelling, ‘F****t! F****t! F****t!’ some more, he started to walk off and I started to cross the street,” Page said. Page said one such moment happened at the Juno premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. And then all the Juno press, all the photo shoots — Michael Cera was in slacks and sneakers,” Page wrote. He recalled how he wanted to wear a suit to the event, but he said “Fox Searchlight was basically like: ‘No, you need to wear a dress’.” Page decided “in my brain” not to do anything physically because the aggressor “was so tall that I couldn’t do anything physically”.

In a new profile, actor Elliot Page opens up about his childhood, the trans experience, and he reflects on times in his career that “almost kill[ed]” him.

So I said I wanted to wear a suit, and Fox Searchlight was basically like, ‘No, you need to wear a dress.’ And they took me in a big rush to one of those fancy stores on Bloor Street. They had me wear a dress, and . . . that was that. “I shouldn’t have to treat it like just this thing that happened—this somewhat normal thing. “I think of times when people actively were like, “No, you need to wear a dress” in very, very, very pivotal moments. I remember the premiere of Juno at the Toronto International Film Festival,” Page says. One of these “pivotal” moments took place during the red carpet premiere of Jason Reitman’s Juno. But that’s mixed with: I wish people would understand that that shit literally did almost kill me.”