Elliot Page said that he was sick while filming Start due to the stress of feeling “out of place”.

The actor has just published a new memoir, page boy, played Ariadne in Christopher Nolan’s 2010 blockbuster alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon Levitt, Tom Hardy, and Cillian Murphy.

Page wrote in his memoirs that he contracted a case of shingles, which “split off my spine” during filming. The actor believes this is due to the stress of being part of an “all-male cast”.

“Although everyone was a pleasure to work with, I felt lost… I didn’t understand my role,” Page wrote.

“During the first two weeks of the movie, I joked that I would get to act again with Keira Knightley, and rightfully so,” he added.

spinning page Start more than a decade before going through his gender transition and years before he told the public that he was attracted to women. He called this a “turbulent” period.

“My body hoards unexplored emotions, feelings, wants and needs. Easy-to-prepare sentences in my brain, stuck,” he wrote.

“I see them, write them down, I hear voices, but my mouth won’t cooperate. Just a tick-tock of a wind-up toy, or nothing at all.”

Also in Page’s memoirs, titled prostitute boyThe actor recounted being verbally attacked by an A-list actor at a party two months after he came out as gay.

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He said an actor, who was an “acquaintance,” told him: “I am not gay. That doesn’t exist. You are only afraid of men. I’ll fuck you to make you realize you’re not gay.

Page also stated that he and he Juno co-star Olivia Thirlby “started having sex all the time” after an intense make-up session while filming the 2007 film.

He also claimed to have a secret relationship with his co-star Kate Mara while she was dating Max Minghella.

In an excerpt shared with Everybody, Page wrote that Mara was “the first person I fell in love with after my heart was broken”. He noted that the House of Cards actor “had a boyfriend at the time, the lovely and talented Max Minghella”.

However, he said Minghella is supportive of them discovering their feelings for each other. “I never thought I could love two people and now I know I can,” Mara told him.

prostitute boy is out now.