Elliot Web page has mentioned he “acquired sick” on the set of Christopher Nolan’s Inception as a consequence of stress.
Web page, who has simply printed his new memoir, Pageboy, appeared within the movie as Ariadne within the hit movie alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy and Cillian Murphy.
Within the memoir, Web page revealed that he got here down with a case of shingles, which “popped out of my backbone” whereas filming. Web page mentioned he thought this was due to the stress brought on by being a part of “a forged stuffed with cis males”.
He defined: “Regardless of everybody being pleasant to work with, I felt misplaced… I didn’t perceive the position I discovered myself in. For the primary two weeks of the movie, I joked I’d be recast with Keira Knightley, and rightfully so.”
Web page labored on Inception over a decade earlier than present process gender transition, and he described this era as “chaotic”. He continued: “My physique hoarded the unexamined feelings, sensations, needs, and wishes. Simple sentences ready in my mind, caught.
“They have been seen to me, written out, I heard the voice however my mouth refused to cooperate. Simply the tick tick tick of the windup toy, or nothing in any respect.”
Elliot Web page. CREDIT: Daniele Venturelli/WireImage
Elsewhere of their new memoir, Web page opened up a couple of previous romance with Kate Mara.
Web page revealed the connection occurred “proper after” they got here out as homosexual in 2014. In 2020, Web page later got here out as a trans man.
In an extract from the e book, Web page mentioned: “The primary individual I fell for after my coronary heart was damaged was Kate Mara.”
“She had a boyfriend on the time, the beautiful and gifted Max Minghella. I by no means thought I could possibly be in love with two folks and now I do know I can,” Web page continued. “This was proper after I’d come out as homosexual and it was a time of exploration and likewise heartbreak.
“I feel my relationship, or no matter you need to name it with Kate, very a lot encapsulates a sure dynamic that I persistently discovered myself in, which was falling for those that – I feel a variety of us do that – who aren’t totally out there. And the form of security in that and the highs and the lows and the serotonin bump, after which it goes away.
Mara has beforehand appeared Brokeback Mountain, American Horror Story and reverse Web page in My Days of Mercy.
Web page went on to say that whereas not collectively, they’re nonetheless shut. “I feel the love and care that we’ve got for one another is its very personal particular factor,” Web page continued. “Separate from the intimacy that I write about”.