Elliot Page is returning to the big screen for the first time in six years.
Page will star in “Close to You,” as a trans man who gets back with a former partner while returning home in suburban Canada. The role marks Page’s first since he came out as trans in 2020.
The Oscar-nominated actor recently spoke to EW about a scene where his character, Sam, gets out of bed shirtless and peers out his window before getting dressed and heading downstairs.
"Shooting on the day, I was getting out of bed and getting dressed, it was sort of clumsy, like, 'Oh, it would be great, he sleeps shirtless.' In the moment when you're making this, you're making it from this instinctual place that I don't know how to describe. It just sort of happens, but at the same time, it just felt natural," he told the publication. “Showing this dude who’s comfortable and present and waking up in his body, that means a lot to me. I never though I’d feel that way, so it’s nice to get to act it.”
Page, who has appeared in hit films like “Juno” and “Inception” called playing the role “liberating.”
"When I was the most uncomfortable, those [past] performances, you're a little more stiff, you're less loose," he said. "There's less ability to kind of go with the flow in the present moment."
“Close to You” does not have a release date but is slated to play the Toronto International Film Festival.