‘I’m so happy’: Sir Ian McKellen on Elliot Page coming out as transgender

The actor emphasised why it was important to be honest with oneself.

“Everything gets better [when you come out because you get self-confidence,” he said.

McKellen recalled a day on the X-Men set, where Page was his co-actor. And the latter was speaking so quietly that “nobody could hear what they were saying.”

“So, I said, ‘Look, if you can’t speak up, would you mind when you’re finished speaking, just dropping your hand so I know when you’ve finished speaking?’ And then they came out [as gay] years later and suddenly you couldn’t stop them talking. You heard everything,” he said.

“And now…they’re Elliot. And I’m so happy for Elliot. And so disappointed in myself that I didn’t detect what their difficulty was with communicating,” he further said.

Elliot Page came out as transgender in December 2020. “I want to share with you that I am trans, my pronouns are he/they and my name is Elliot,” they wrote.

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