Elliot Page, who shared in a poignant social media post last year that he is transgender, opened up to Oprah Winfrey and explained why he chose to speak up now. “With this horrible backlash we’re seeing toward trans people and particularly trans youth, it really felt imperative to do so,” he said. NBC’s Sam Brock reports for Weekend TODAY.
Elliot Page has released an emotional trailer for his upcoming film “Close to You” — his first since coming out as a transgender man in 2020. In the film, produced by Page and written and directed by Dominic Savage, Page plays Sam, a trans man who is reunited with his family for the first time since his transition “I’m going home for my dad’s birthday,” Sam says in the trailer for the film, which will premiere in theaters Aug 16. “I haven’t gone back in close to four years.
” Page’s performance in the film, according to one Variety review, “isn’t moving merely for whatever parallels it might hold to his life: Rather, it’s a reminder of what a deft and perceptive actor he can be, capable of both naked emotional candor and acidic wit — both assets to a script that sometimes errs on the side of caution.” The film premiered at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival last fall, shortly after the release of Page’s memoir, “Pageboy.
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