Elliot Page Recalls Being Forced to Wear a Dress to the ‘Juno’ Premiere

In an intimate new essay for Esquire, Elliot Web page revealed what it was like selling a film a couple of teen lady as a closeted trans man, in addition to the way in which he’s been handled since popping out in 2020.

In 2007, Juno was an enormous indie hit, garnering author Diablo Cody an Oscar for greatest authentic screenplay and Web page, within the title function, a greatest actress nomination. However despite the fact that the success gave Web page the profession he’d been working towards, the expertise because the face of the movie was sophisticated, to say the least. In a brand new private essay for Esquire, the Umbrella Academy star revealed how the film studio went as far as to manage his clothes through the press tour.

“I consider instances when folks actively had been like, ‘No, it’s good to put on a costume,’ in very, very, very pivotal moments. I bear in mind the premiere of Juno on the Toronto Worldwide Movie Competition. Beforehand…I dressed how I wished to decorate—not dissimilar to now…I mentioned I wished to put on a go well with, and Fox Searchlight was mainly like, ‘No, it’s good to put on a costume.’ And so they took me in a giant rush to a type of fancy shops on Bloor Avenue. That they had me put on a costume, and…that was that. After which all of the Juno press, all of the picture shoots—Michael Cera was in slacks and sneakers. I look again on the photographs, and I’m like…?” he wrote, noting not solely the unfairness of the state of affairs but in addition the double customary utilized to Cera. He additional defined that it isn’t simply closeted or trans individuals who want to have the ability to really feel snug of their garments: “It doesn’t matter if I’m trans or cis. Plenty of cis ladies costume how I costume. That has nothing to fucking do with it.”