Elliot Page feels like he can finally just be himself. The Canadian actor speaks to Esquire for their summer issue on what he has learned from transitioning, telling the magazine: “I can’t overstate the biggest joy, which is really seeing yourself.
I know I look different to others, but to me I’m just starting to look like myself. “It’s indescribable, because I’m just like, there I am.
And thank God. Here I am. So the greatest joy is just being able to feel present, literally, just to be present. “To go out in a group of new people and be able to engage in a way where I didn’t feel this constant sensation to flee from my body, this never-ending sensation of anxiety and nervousness and wanting out. “When I say I couldn’t have ever imagined feeling that way, I mean that with every sense of me,” he adds. READ MORE: Elliot Page Reintroduces Himself As Viktor Hargreeves In ‘The Umbrella Academy’ Season 3 Trailer Page shares of the reaction to his transition, “I didn’t expect it to be so big.
In terms of the actual quality of the response, it was what I expected: love and support from many people and hatred and cruelty and vitriol from so many others.
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