Elliot Page remembers being ‘made to wear a dress’ while promoting Juno: ‘I wasn’t okay’

Elliot Web page appeared dapper in a tux at this 12 months’s Oscars (Image: David Livingston/Getty Photographs)

Elliot Web page has recalled the difficulties he confronted when selling his 2007 movie, saying that he was ‘made to put on a costume’ after asking if he might put on a go well with as an alternative.

In December 2020, the actor got here out as transgender, saying in an announcement launched on the time: ‘I really feel fortunate to be penning this. To be right here. To have arrived at this place in my life.’

The Umbrella Academy star beforehand got here out as homosexual in 2014, having discovered fame in movies together with Onerous Sweet, Whip It, Inception and X-Males.

The 35-year-old has written a brand new essay opening up about his transition, explaining that when Juno was ‘on the peak of its reputation’, he was ‘closeted, wearing heels and the entire look – I wasn’t okay.’

‘I consider instances when individuals actively had been like, “No, it's worthwhile to put on a costume” in very, very, very pivotal moments. I keep in mind the premiere of Juno on the Toronto Worldwide Movie Competition,’ he wrote for Esquire.

Elliot defined that on earlier events, he ‘didn’t know the idea of a stylist’, so he ‘dressed how I wished to decorate – not dissimilar to now’.

Elliot reunited along with his Juno co-stars Jennifer Garner and JK Simmons on the Oscars (Image: ABC by way of Getty Photographs)

‘And I keep in mind going and having the factor I wished to put on, after which understanding the diploma of expectation of how fancy somebody is meant to look. So I mentioned I wished to put on a go well with, and Fox Searchlight was mainly like, “No, it's worthwhile to put on a costume,”’ he mentioned.

The actor mentioned that he was taken to a store to purchase a costume, including: ‘That was that.’

The Umbrella Academy followers can’t wait to see Viktor within the new season (Image: Courtesy of Netflix)

Then when doing press for Juno, which included picture shoots, his co-star Michael Cera was allowed to put on ‘slacks and sneakers’.

Later this month, Elliot is ready to return to The Umbrella Academy as Viktor for season three.

The recently-released trailer teased the superpowered siblings’ conflict with the newly-introduced Sparrow Academy, who had taken their place of their familial house in an alternate actuality.

Followers had been left sobbing when a poster that includes Viktor was launched, as they noticed a nod to the character’s late brother Ben along with his alternative of apparel.

Metro.co.uk has contacted Searchlight Footage for remark.