That's what inspired Elliot page to release publicly

The star opened his trip to a new interview with time.


WhenElliot Publicly selects as transgender on December 1, 2020, the actor tended to Twitter and received an extension of fans support and other celebrities. But, of course, everyone has not shown love. "What I was waiting for, it was a lot of support and love and a massive amount of hatred and transphobia", "Page indicated in a new interview withTime magazine. "That's basically what happened."

In the interview,The umbrella academyStar opens the decision to go out in the world in DecemberSocial mediaAnd the timing had to do with something we all live: the Covid-19 pandemic.

Read it to see which page had to say about going out and what he revealed about his trip. And for more on theJuno actor, checkThe wife of the Elliot page shows the support after the actor goes out as transgender.

Being isolated influenced the decision of the page.

Elliot Page on the cover of
TIME magazine

Reflecting on the pandemic, the page said, "I had a lot of time alone to actually focus on things I think, so many ways, unconsciously, I avoided it." As theTime Interview tip, page and ex-wife,Emma carrier, separated in the summer of 2020. With this time to explore his own identity in isolation, I said that I finally been able to kiss to be transgender and let me fully become who I am. "

Read another story to comeThe sister of Pedro Pascal says he helped him out like a transgender woman.

His name was inspired by a favorite movie.

Elliot Page in a selfie from Instagram
Elliot Page / Instagram

Page also shared withTime that he chose the name Elliot, a name he has always loved, in part because of the main character of the 1982 classicE.T. The extraterrestrial. "I lovedAnd. When I was a child and I always wanted to look like the cinema boys, did not you?Umbrella academy The actor has declared. The page even has a tattoo on his arm that reads: "E.P. phone at home", referring to a famous film quote.

Read about another celeb ink inMadonna just received his first tattoo and it's for all his children.

The page has had difficulty in Hollywood expectations of the presentation of the sexes before going out.

Elliot Page at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival
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During the main moments of the page page, an additional career - such appearing in blockbusters such as 2006X-Men: the final confrontation and 2010Creation-He had a hard time having an anxiety, depression and panic attacks, and even considered to stop smoking completely. Page indicated that he did not know "how to explain to people that even though [I was] an actor, just put a cut t-shirt for a woman would make me feel sick."

In 2014, the page arrived as gay, which made it feel more comfortable in some respects, but not entirely, because he still did not live like his true self. At this point, the page made a male wardrobe a requirement of any role he took and started producing his own films with LGBTQAIA + actors. "The difference in the way I felt before going out like gay after being massive," says the pageTime. "But does the discomfort of my body ever gone? No, no, no, no."

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The page is fighting for transferting people who do not have the same resources or privilege as him.

Elliot Page's coming out letter from Instagram
Elliot Page / Instagram

TellTimeThat he be released for himself, explaining more: "I want to live and be who I am." But, he knows that, with his celebrity, out can also have a significant impact on others, which means that it means that someone to search or use his platform to fight for trans. Trans. For example, the page used its platform to speak against anti-trans in Alabama legislation.

The page talked about this in his open letter when he came out. After citing heartbreaking statistics on the amount of trans peoplewho are killed Wherewho plan to finish their lives, Page wrote, "to all the transgency people dealing with harassment, self-hate, abuse and threat of violence every day: I see you, I love you, I will do all that I can make this world change for the better. "

For another star in the LGBTQIA + community, checkJojo Siwa has just revealed why she decided to come to her fans.


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