Elliot Page has said he “got sick” on the set of Christopher Nolan’s Inception due to stress.Page, who has just published his new memoir, Pageboy, appeared in the film as Ariadne in the hit film alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy and Cillian Murphy.In the memoir, Page revealed that he came down with a case of shingles, which “popped out of my spine” while filming.
Page said he thought this was because of the stress caused by being part of “a cast full of cis men”.He explained: “Despite everyone being delightful to work with, I felt out of place… I did not understand the role I found myself in.
For the first two weeks of the film, I joked I would be recast with Keira Knightley, and rightfully so.”Page worked on Inception over a decade before undergoing gender transition, and he described this period as “chaotic”.
He continued: “My body hoarded the unexamined emotions, sensations, wants, and needs. Easy sentences prepared in my brain, stuck.“They were visible to me, written out, I heard the voice but my mouth refused to cooperate.
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