While Page didn't give interviews during the Friday red carpet for Backspot, the actors, directors and producers he worked with described a collaborative, hands-on approach that is unusual for an executive producer. "But this was about always working with Elliot and making the film with him and for him." Hands-on approach "Normally with actors, you cast for the part that you in mind," Savage said. It relies heavily on improvisation by the performers. (Courtesy of Me+You Productions)īritish film director Dominic Savage - who became close friends with Page while collaborating on Close To You and writing the script together - said he approached the filmmaking process differently because of Page's involvement.Īfter all, Close To You echoes Page's own life, as his character Sam returns home for the first time after coming out as trans. "There is a depth in that soul that is so deep, you look into those eyes, you just go back centuries."Ĭlose to You stars Canadian Oscar nominee Elliot Page as a transgender person heading home for a tense family reunion. "I can't believe the courage that it takes to step up in the way that he has, to reveal himself in the way that he has," both in his memoir and in his films, Crewson said, and "to really sort of be his authentic self without apology and without backing down."ĭespite Page's high profile, he is quiet and reserved, Crewson said.
With the Oscar-nominated actor now representing two films at the festival featuring LGBTQ protagonists, his co-star Wendy Crewson - a Canadian actress who stars in both Close To You and Backspot - told CBC News that she was proud of him.
It partly recounted the challenges of publicly sharing his gender identity amid, as he described in a June interview with CBC News, a climate of "intense hostility" toward trans people. Page, who came out as trans in 2020, released the memoir Pageboy earlier this year. So finally getting to share it with an audience is special."ĭuration 1:15 Canadian actor Elliot Page spoke with CBC News at the TIFF premiere of Close to You, in which he stars as a transgender man returning to his Ontario hometown for a family reunion. "It's been a dream experience of a project. "I just feel so grateful to be here in a city I love, at a festival I love, with a film that was set here and in Cobourg," he said. While on the red carpet for the Sunday premiere of Close To You, the 37-year-old actor said it was "an absolute thrill" to be sharing the film - an intense drama that marks his first lead film role as an openly trans man - with festival audiences in Canada.
Waterson's Backspot, a queer sports drama about a cheerleading couple who are both selected to compete on an all-star team, was produced by Page and his company, Pageboy Productions. Page stars in Dominic Savage's Close To You as a trans man who encounters an old friend during a visit to his hometown in Cobourg, Ont., for a family reunion. The Oscar-nominee has a pair of movies playing at this year's Toronto International Film Festival. He plays the leading man in one Canadian drama - and is the executive producer of another. While marking his Canadian film festival homecoming this weekend, Elliot Page wore two hats.
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