“It wasn’t easy to explain to my reps that I couldn’t take on a role because of clothing. A face would scrunch up and tilt sideways, ‘But you’re an actor?'”
Prior to transitioning, the “Umbrella Academy” actor shared in his tome that he was set to travel to England to play a “sought-after” role based on a “famous book” following awards season.Richard Harbaugh//ABC via Getty Images
However, he wrote that it became “too much” to play a feminine character on-screen when the role he “played in [his] personal life was suffocating [him] already.” “I pushed myself to dispel the truth for fear of banishment, but I was despondent, trapped in a dismal disguise. An empty, aimless shell,” Page elaborated.
“It wasn’t easy to explain to my reps that I couldn’t take on a role because of clothing. A face would scrunch up and tilt sideways, ‘But you’re an actor?’ Wardrobe fittings for films ripped at my insides, talons gashing my organs.” Page wrote that, prior to transitioning, having to “put on the mask” to wear a dress and heels at “awards season” was already “too much.”Continuing, he wrote, “I cringed at the way people lit up when seeing me in feminine clothing, as if I had accomplished a miraculous feat.”
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