Elliot Page Recalls Being Forced to Wear Dress for 'Juno' Premiere, Says 'I Wasn't Okay'

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Elliot Page is looking back at skyrocketing to fame after Juno was released back in 2007. In a new interview, the 35-year-old actor, who came out as transgender in late 2020, recalled by “closeted” and forced to wear a dress during awards season to promote the hit movie. Click inside to read more… “I was closeted, dressed in heels and the whole look — I wasn’t okay, and I didn’t know how to talk about that with anyone,” Elliot admitted to Esquire.

While he “can’t pinpoint a ‘worst day,” Elliot said, “When Juno was blowing up — this sounds strange to people, and I get that people don’t understand.

Oh, f–k you, you’re famous, and you have money, and you had to wear a dress, boo-hoo. I don’t not understand that reaction.” “But that’s mixed with: I wish people would understand that that s–t literally did almost kill me,” he added. Elliot went on to say that he was eventually able to start talking to Catherine Keener – whom he calls his “oldest friend in L.A” – after they start working on the 2007 movie An American Crime together.

They first met when he was 19. “I was living in a hotel by myself, and she came and got me. I lived with her,” Elliot recalled. “For my 21st birthday, she had a surprise party for me.