Elliot Page is opening up about his first queer crush. The actor, producer, and author came out as trans in 2020, writing: "I love that I am trans. And I love that I am queer. And the more I hold myself close and fully embrace who I am, the more I dream, the more my heart grows and the more I thrive."
Appearing in Them's "Queer Roots" video series, he revealed that his first queer crush was Amy Szalinski, the older sister in Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. In the 1989 science fiction comedy, an inventor dad accidentally shrinks his teen kids so they're the size of insects.
In addition to previously having a crush on the older sister in the film, Elliot, 37, admired the film as "a cinematic masterpiece," he told media outlet Them in the video.
"Truly, what a spectacle, right?" he said. "Riding a giant ant? Please. Stumbling upon a monstrous Oreo cookie?"
After recalling some of his favorite scenes, he said Honey, I Shrunk the Kids is "really quite a stunning motion picture."
Elliot then went on to explain why he previously had a crush on Amy, saying, "she's really pretty, you know, really gorgeous."
But he also noticed her style at the time. "Just the way she dressed was really cool," Elliot explained. "There was a casualness, there was a looseness, there's some flannel action."
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He added that "the character was so caring and thoughtful." Elsewhere in the interview, Elliot spoke about some of his favorite queer-coded movies, including Titanic. "I was very much into Rose," he explained to Them. "Who isn’t into Kate Winslet?"
Elliot has also spoken about how, in retrospect, he sees queerness in all of the characters he has portrayed. In an interview with The Independent, he explained how he saw queerness in Juno MacGuff, the character he portrayed in Juno before coming out.
"I look back now and [queerness] is all I see in most of my characters," he told the publication. "And that’s exactly what made Juno so special, and why so many people did connect with that character."
Reflecting on what made Juno's character so special, Elliot thought about how his own queerness helped shape the character. "I was like, this is how this character is going to dress. This is her cadence, how she moves, how she walks. A lot of it obviously came from my queerness," he told The Independent.
The way he was pressured to wear dresses while promoting the film felt "gross" and not true to the character, he explained. "Obviously it’s an incredible script and filmmaker and all of those things, but my queerness is so related to how that character was, you know?" he told the news outlet.
