Tales of the City actor and lesbian icon Ellen Page has long wowed us with her articulate and no-bullshit attitude towards the inane heteronormativity of Hollywood. Ever since she came out during a speech in 2014, we've loved the way she called out Chris Pratt's church for being "infamously anti-LGBTQ", and how she spoke so openly about how much people speculating about her sexuality screwed with her mental health.
And now, she's expertly shut down a reporter who asked her a dumb ass question as she sat on a panel at Toronto International Film Festival. The journalist piped up and asked Ellen if she "worried about being typecast" as a lesbian, who plays gay roles. Yep, that is a real question that a real human adult interviewer asked her. And I can only imagine it hung in the air like a stale fart.
Ellen's response was short but perfect, "You would never ask a heterosexual actress that, as being typecast as straight. Why would I not want to play those roles?"
She added, "Quite frankly, I would be thrilled if it’s every role I ever played again!"
Her amazing queer roles include Shawna Hawkins in Tales of the City (who, spoiler, we get to see hook up with Girls' Zosia Mamet AND have a threesome with a married male-female couple).
She's also starring in My Days of Mercy where she falls in love with a death row protestor (Kate Mara) with opposing views to her family's. And, she's said she believes Juno grew up to be gay too.
At the panel, she also said, "I came out when I was 27 years old. Like, what? I wasn’t talking about who I was and being my authentic self because I was an actress in Hollywood. That’s absurd. We need to look at these things as absurd."
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