'We started having sex all the time': Elliot Page shares details of romance with Juno co-star Olivia Thirlby
Elliot Page claims he and Olivia Thirlby "started having sex all the time" while filming 'Juno' after confessing their mutual attraction to one another.
Elliot Page claims he and Olivia Thirlby "started having sex all the time" while filming 'Juno'.
The 36-year-old actor - who came out as gay in 2014 and then as transgender in 2020 - recalled feeling "taken aback" the moment he first set eyes on his co-star from the 2007 movie and their relationship escalated quickly.
In an excerpt from his memoir 'Pageboy' obtained by The Daily Beast Elliot wrote: I was taken aback the moment I saw Olivia Thirlby. We stood in her hotel room. Billie Holliday played.
"She was about to start making lunch, when she looked directly at me and said point-blank, ‘I’m really attracted to you.’ ‘Uh, I’m really attracted to you, too.’ At that we started sucking face.
"It was on... we started having sex all the time: her hotel room, in our trailers at work, once in a tiny, private room in a restaurant.”
Olivia came out as bisexual in 2011 and married Jacques Pienaar in 2014.
Elliot admitted starring as a teenager who falls pregnant in the movie made him feel empowered.
He said: "Ironically, playing a pregnant teenager was one of the first times I felt a modicum of autonomy on set. I was wearing a fake belly but not being hyperfeminized. For me, Juno was emblematic of what could be possible, a space beyond the binary."
But he didn't feel so at ease working on 'Inception'.
He admitted: "Shingles popped out of my spine while filming 'Inception' when I was 22,.
“In a cast full of cis men, I did not understand the role I found myself in. Despite everyone being delightful to work with, I felt out of place. For the first two weeks of the film I joked I would be recast with Keira Knightly, and rightfully so. Shingles communicated the stress my body felt, what my words could not.”
