Within the 2005 movie Exhausting Sweet, Elliot Web page performs a teenage vigilante searching for revenge on a sexual predator. However as revealed in his new memoir Pageboy, the then-17-year-old actor was subjected to undesirable sexual advances by a member of the movie’s manufacturing group.
Web page, now 36, recounts an incident involving a male crew member who gave him a experience residence.
“His voice candy, his palms on my shoulders, he guided me to the bed room,” the trans star writes within the e-book. “I went stiff. Uncertain what to do as he stood tall and eliminated his glasses. He laid me down on the mattress.”
In line with Web page, the person eliminated his pants and proceeded to carry out oral intercourse on him. “I froze,” Web page, who got here out as trans in 2020, writes. “After it was over, he tried to remain within the mattress with me. I had thawed marginally and instructed him he could not, to get out.”
In a brand new interview with the Guardian, Web page mentioned the “traumatic” incident, and the way it affected him all through his life.
“Aside from the ability dialog and the toxicity that comes with that, it’s simply being a teen who’s in an area with a number of adults and in conditions the place folks took … I do not even know the phrase. I used to be about to say ‘benefit’ or ‘terrible benefit,’ however that simply feels gross,” Web page remembers. “I nearly don’t have the phrases for it as a result of it’s so f***ing exhausting to wrap my head round why any person desires to try this.”
In Web page’s e-book, he additionally wrote a couple of separate incident involving an advance by a feminine crew member he labored with on a distinct mission. Web page and the unidentified feminine have been house-hunting when Web page stated he was grabbed.
“I used to be standing within the empty lounge, in entrance of the sofa, once I felt her seize me. She pressed her face into mine, some model of kissing,” he writes. “That freezing coming over me once more. The subsequent factor I knew I used to be on the rug, the ground agency on my again. I didn’t say no, I didn’t resist, I simply stiffened.”
Web page additionally famous that one director groomed him as a young person, stroking his thigh beneath the desk throughout dinner. The director instructed Web page, “You need to make the transfer, I am unable to.”
Wanting again, Web page says he by no means mentioned the incidents with anybody as a result of he had come to view it because the norm in Hollywood.
“I did not know methods to speak to folks about it. I believed you simply recover from it and transfer on,” he instructed the Guardian. It was solely some time later that he discovered the flexibility to “sit and totally discuss these experiences or acknowledge that they have been traumatic and had a major impression on me.” Later, Web page delved into the trauma throughout remedy.
“I would sit in remedy and discuss these items, and my therapist would go: ‘That is a lot, that is traumatic,’ and I would be like: ‘What? What are you speaking about?’ I don’t know if that was a self-defense mechanism or simply being made to really feel it’s not a giant deal,” he defined.
This story was initially printed on June 11, 2023 at 1:14 p.m. ET and has been up to date.
