Page details his experience filming the reboot of the popular ’90s film in his new memoir Pageboy.
Elliot Pageis resurrecting some issues he had while filmingFlatliners.
“It went off the rails,” Page writes in a chapter dedicated solely toFlatliners.
Elliot Page.Robert Smith/Patrick McMullan via Getty
‘Why does everyone else have a safety belt but not us?’
we’d inquired."
“How Kiersey and I were treated with such flippancy and disrespect.
Elliot Page in 2017’s ‘Flatliners’.Michael Gibson/Columbia/Everett
“‘Are you mad that this character isn’t gay?’
he asked me.”
He looked on inscrutably, as if being pleasant means you are not queerphobic.
Page says he immediately went to the studio with his concerns.
“His subsequent texts to Kiersey asking her to go to dinner glared with gross.”
All that I had swallowed for years, I hauled out my insides for him to gorge on.”
Representatives from Sony Pictures Entertainment did not immediately respond to EW’s request for comment.
The 2017 remake starred Page, Clemons, Diego Luna, Nina Dobrev, and James Norton.
