Elliot Page (Formerly Ellen): I UNvbGxhcHNlZ I= After Being Asked To Wear A Dress At ‘Inception’ Premiere

[Ubiquitous]

Elliot Page, the actor formerly known as Ellen Page but who now
identifies as a man, “collapsed” after being asked to wear a dress at
the 2010 premiere of Christopher Nolan’s hit movie “Inception,”
according to an interview Page gave to Oprah Winfrey.

During Page’s sit-down interview for Oprah, Page claimed to have
suffered a panic attack during the international press tour for
“Inception” out of pressure to conform with Hollywood gender demands.

“There was so much press and so many premieres all around the world and
I was wearing dresses and heels to pretty much every single event,”
Page said, as reported by IndieWire.

Page said that a horrible panic attack occurred at the Paris premiere,
after a staff member brought three dresses as formal wear options for
the film’s initial screening.

“I lost it, it was like a cinematic moment. That night, after the
premiere at the after-party, I collapsed. That’s something that’s
happened frequently in my life, usually corresponding with a panic
attack,” Page said. “Ultimately, of course, it’s every experience
you’ve had since you were a toddler, people saying, ‘The way you’re
sitting is not ladylike, you’re walking like a boy. The music you’re
listening to as a teenager,’ obviously, the way you dress. Every single
aspect of who you are constantly being looked at and put in a box in a
very binary system. That’s what it leads to.”

Page also claims to have suffered from severe anxiety after being
nominated for an Oscar for “Juno”

“That was a pretty intense time. I remember it felt so impossible to
communicate with people how unwell I was because obviously there is so
much excitement,” said Page. “The film unexpectedly became a big hit, I
became quite known, all these things and I felt I couldn’t express just
the degree of pain I was in.”

“So the Oscars, for example, I could not look at a photo from that red
carpet,” Page added. “People might watch this and say, ‘Oh my gosh,
this person is crying about the night they went to the Oscars.’ And I
think again that prevents the ability to allow yourself to not just
feel the pain but reflect on the pain, to even begin to sit down and
bring it all up and finally confront all of that.”

Page came out as transgender and non-binary in early December 2020,
roughly six years after coming out as a lesbian.

“Hi friends, I want to share with you that I am trans, my pronouns are
he/they and my name is Elliot,” Page said in a statement posted to
Twitter. “I feel lucky to be writing this. To be here. To have arrived
at this place in my life. I feel overwhelming gratitude for the
incredible people who have supported me along this journey. I can’t
begin to express how remarkable it feels to finally love who I am
enough to pursue my authentic self.”

--
Trump won.