Elliot Page has come a long way. Born with female gender characteristics, the actor announced in December 2020 that he is trans and now uses the pronouns “he” (er) and “they” (gender-neutral). As Page recently revealed, for years he suffered greatly from the juxtaposition of male identification and a female appearance. This psychological distress also surfaced on the set of the sci-fi masterpiece Inception. Elliot Page was afraid losing his role to Keira Knightley.
In Inception sci-fi shoot: Should Elliot Page be replaced by Keira Knightley?
Elliot Page plays the character Ariadne in the film by Christopher Nolan, who is supposed to construct dream worlds for Leonardo DiCaprio’s hero. In his recent memoir, titled Pageboy (via Insider), he writes:
I got shingles while filming Inception. Although [meine Co-Stars] all were a real pleasure to work with, I felt out of place. In a cast full of cis men, I just couldn’t understand my role. […] The first two weeks I joked being replaced by Keira Knightley.
Cis males are those born biological males who identify as males. Page took on a female role in Inception that did not match his male identification. Trans people often suffer from the painful mismatch of both sex areas, also known as gender dysphoria.
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Elliot Page as Ariadne in Inception
He doesn’t explain why Page feared being replaced by Keira Knightley of all people. Knightley was never officially considered for the Inception cast. Page probably saw the British actress as Symbolic figure of carefree cis femininity, who shouldn’t have suffered any gender dysphoria on the inception set.
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