In his new memoir, Pageboy, Elliot Page is revealing a ton of secrets. The 36-year-old actor revealed that he and Juno costar Olivia Thirlby had sex "all the time" while filming the 2007 movie. Elliot played Juno, who was a pregnant teen. Olivia played Leah, who was Juno's best friend.
"I was taken aback the moment I saw Olivia Thirlby," Elliot wrote in the book. "Embodied and bold, her long brown hair moved in slow motion. We were the same age, but she seemed so much older, capable, and centered. Sexually open, far removed from where I was at the time. But the chemistry was palpable, it pulled me in."
To Elliot's surprise, Olivia was attracted to him just as much as he was attracted to her. "I had an all-encompassing desire for her, she made me want in a way that was new, hopeful … And we started having sex all the time: her hotel room, in our trailers at work, once in a tiny, private room in a restaurant," Elliot wrote.
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Elliot noted he's unsure if his mother, who he shared a hotel room at the time of filming, ever suspected anything. "She probably just thought Olivia and I had become fast pals. Which was true," he shared. "But still, I kept it hidden. Olivia came to my suite maybe once."
He later revealed that after saying his goodbyes at a party after the filming was done, his heart hurt during the trip back home. "The experience of making Juno and meeting Thirlby reinvigorated me, inspired me, strengthened me."
Elliot came out as bisexual in 2011. Assigned female at birth and formerly known as Ellen, he later came out as a trans man in December 2020. "Hi friends, I want to share with you that I am trans, my pronouns are he/they and my name is Elliot," he shared in an Instagram post. "I feel lucky to be writing this. To be here. To have arrived at this place in my life."
He later become the first trans man to be on the cover of Time magazine. "With deep respect for those who came before me, gratitude for those who have supported me and great concern for the generation of trans youth we must all protect, please join me and decry anti-trans legislation, hate and discrimination in all its forms," he shared, adding the hashtags #transgenderrrightsarehumanrights and #protecttranskids.
"It definitely feels a way that I never thought I would get to feel, and that mostly manifests in how present I feel, the ease I feel and the ability to exist," Elliot shared with People. "There’s been periods in my life where I really felt like I didn’t."
"So often it’s a lot more in the quiet moments. I think we talk about 'trans joy' and euphoria. So much of it is in the stillness," he shared. "To have my shoulders back. I just was always kind of shut off, anxious. I used to never feel like my skin was my own."
