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Naman Ramachandran Oscar, BAFTA and Emmy winner Kate Winslet and her daughter Mia Threapleton (“Shadows”) will star in a feature-length episode of the third season of Dominic Savage’s acclaimed Channel 4 series “I Am.”All episodes in the series are named after their lead characters and Winslet’s episode is titled “I Am Ruth.” Created, written and directed by BAFTA-winning filmmaker Savage, the stories for each episode have been developed in a creative partnership with the leading actors, with semi-improvised dialogue. The series debuted in 2019, with Vicky McClure starring in “I Am Nicola,” Samantha Morton in “I Am Kirsty” and Gemma Chan in “I Am Hannah.” The second season, which bowed in 2021, had Suranne Jones in “I Am Victoria,” Letitia Wright in “I Am Danielle” and Lesley Manville in “I Am Maria.” Filming on “I Am Ruth” will start at the end of April for three weeks.

Elliot Page has spoken about the “big, big healing experience” of playing a trans man in his new film Close To Me.The film, which is in UK cinemas now, sees the actor playing Sam, a recently transitioned man who returns home to celebrate his father’s birthday, anxious about what his family’s reception to him will be.For Page, who came out as a trans man in December 2020, the role offered a cathartic experience, one he told Manchester Evening News he would not “have been able to feel comfortable and present and grounded enough” to perform before his own transition.“For me, waking up every day so excited to go to set that, to me, was a big, big healing experience,” he said.The film is directed by Dominic Savage, best known for his Channel 4 anthology series I Am…, and was largely improvised on set, something Page said he “wasn’t sure” he would be able to do.“It’s not normal as an actor working in film that you do a 23-minute take, 40-minute take…and so you get that exhilarating joy that you feel in acting,” he said. “It was just an absolute joy.”Last month, Page said he felt “incredibly angry and frightened” by the wave of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation coming into force in the US, specifically in the light of the Republican National Convention, which saw several politicians dialling up the rhetoric on the subject.“I think of, for example, the trans community, and how the vast majority of people don’t know or think they don’t know a trans person.

Elliot Page has spoken about the profound personal impact of his latest role, describing a sense of catharsis in playing a recently transitioned man visiting his family for the first time as his true self.

Guy Lodge Film Critic “Close to You” marks a reintroduction for Elliot Page, a screen presence at once warmly familiar and sharply redefined, finally established on his own terms. In his first film role since coming out as a trans man, the actor has evidently brought much of his own identity and experience to this sensitively observed story of a trans man cagily reunited with his family after a five-year period of estrangement.

Elliot Page stepped out for the 2024 BFI Flare film festival premiere of his new movie Close to You held at BFI Southbank on Thursday (March 14) in London.

Alex Ritman Elliot Page has taken aim at the notion that queer films only have a small audience. Speaking at the BFI Flare, London’s LGBTQ film festival, the actor claimed that “30% of young people identify as LGBTQ,” referring to a survey released earlier this year about Gen Z adults in the U.S. “So I’m sorry, but this is not niche.” Page was in London with his latest feature “Close to You,” which had its European premiere as the BFI Flare opening night film on Thursday.

Alex Ritman “Close to You,” the Elliot Page-starring drama directed by BAFTA winner Dominic Savage, will be introduced to international buyers at the European Film Market by former Charades exec Jean-Félix Dealberto. The film, which was written by Savage and Page, and also stars Hillary Baack (“Sound of Metal”), had its world premiere in Toronto, where Greenwich Entertainment acquired U.S. distribution rights.

EXCLUSIVE: Close to You, the indie drama produced by and starring Elliot Page (The Umbrella Academy), which world premiered at the 2023 Toronto Film Festival, has been acquired for a summer 2024 release in U.S. theaters by Greenwich Entertainment.

Elliot Page is back on the red carpet for his film career!

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Elliot Page conquered a new challenge for his first movie role in six years. In “Close to You,” an observant drama that premieres on Sunday at the Toronto Film Festival, there’s basically no written dialogue in the script, so everything that you hear in the movie was improvised by the actors on the day of shooting. “I’ve never done anything like this before,” Page told Variety in a recent Zoom interview prior to the film’s premiere.

Academy Award nominee Elliot Page (The Umbrella Academy) is set to star opposite Hillary Baack (Sound of Metal) in Close to You, a new film from BAFTA-winning writer-director Dominic Savage (I Am…), which has wrapped production in Canada.

I Am Ruth star Kate Winslet has reflected on the impact of the show following her win at tonight’s (May 14) BAFTAs ceremony. The actress spoke to the press following her win for Best Actress at tonight’s awards, and explained that the Channel 4 series had a profound influence on her and the wider public. “I’m so proud because we made something that really touched people,” she said.

Kate Winslet and Mia Threapleton make one striking mother and daughter duo!

Like mother, like daughter! Kate Winslet and her daughter, Mia Threapleton, will appear on screen together in the upcoming Channel 4 anthology series I Am Ruth.

A Scots mum left with crippling energy bills from the cost of running her daughter's life support has received a £17,000 donation from Kate Winslet.

Kate Winslet will star in the first feature-length episode of I Am, Channel 4’s award-winning female-led drama anthology series.