“What were we thinking?
We thought we were subtle.”
Elliot Pageis baring all inhis new memoir,Pageboy.
Elliott Page and Olivia Thirlby.Steve Granitz/FilmMagic; David Livingston/Getty
“I was taken aback the moment I saw Olivia Thirlby,” Page writes in the book.
“Embodied and bold, her long brown hair moved in slow motion.
We were the same age, but she seemed so much older, capable, and centered.
Sexually open, far removed from where I was at the time.
But the chemistry was palpable, it pulled me in.”
Page responded, “Uh, I’m really attracted to you, too.”
“At that we started sucking face.
It was on,” Page writes.
Page continues, “What were we thinking?We thought we were subtle.
Being intimate with Olivia helped my shame dissipate.
“She probably just thought Olivia and I had become fast pals.
Which was true,” Page writes.
“But still, I kept it hidden.
Olivia came to my suite maybe once.”
The experience of makingJunoand meeting Thirlby “reinvigorated me, inspired me, strengthened me,” Page writes.
My heart hurt as I traveled home.”
Thirlby came out as bisexual in 2011.
In 2014, she married Jacques Pienaar.
“The first person I fell for after my heart was broken was Kate Mara,” Page says.
Separate from the intimacy that I write about," Page adds.
