Elliot Page / Ellen Page - Former actress, starred in Juno. Turned into a pooner and divorced her wife because being a lesbian was not boosting her career anymore. Receives a daily dose of asspatting from Hollywood. Likes to show off her "male" body using fake abdominals.

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This is the X Men 3 Cannes dress. No idea who that guy is and can't find any references. I don't know about her gender, but I can imagine not wanting to truss yourself up like a piece of meat to go to Cannes (famous for celebrity sex work). People will look at you in a certain way even if that's not why you're there.
She recounts the event as if it were an actual trauma to observe how people were impressed by how she looked in feminine attire. She will NEVAR FORGET THEIR GLEE! Bitch it was a film premiere at Cannes. That's a very special occasion and you looked stunning in that dress. It's not at all surprising that people's faces lit up.

Maybe she's had actual trauma in her life, but for sure she has waaaay more imagined trauma than actual trauma. She seems to almost romanticize trauma and neurosis.
 
From what I understand, roller derby does have an association with lesbians. Not that I know very much else about roller derby.

I’ve known several lesbians into or (participated in) roller derby, so it’s a well deserved stereotype IMO. I watched Whip It when it came out and thought lesbian Ellen Page being the star was fitting because of that.

Roller derby itself has historically been mostly all female teams/leagues. Probably inevitable for lesbians to be attracted to it like women’s soccer or volleyball.

She recounts the event as if it were an actual trauma to observe how people were impressed by how she looked in feminine attire. She will NEVAR FORGET THEIR GLEE! Bitch it was a film premiere at Cannes. That's a very special occasion and you looked stunning in that dress. It's not at all surprising that people's faces lit up.

Maybe she's had actual trauma in her life, but for sure she has waaaay more imagined trauma than actual trauma. She seems to almost romanticize trauma and neurosis.

Right? They’re looking at her because she’s a celebrity wearing a pretty gown at Cannes. Maybe a handful of creeps looked at her like a piece of meat, but that’s not only a Cannes thing. That’s just daily life for many women. Most were complimenting her and she took it as a personal threat.

Ellen’s stories like this remind me of someone I knew that experienced severe abuse and became mentally ill to the point that she thought everything that everyone did was an attack on her. Son in law unable to come for a visit with daughter due to work schedule? He was going out of his way to avoid her. Her preschool aged granddaughter copying a limp she developed from a car accident? Kid was mocking her. Niece gave her a gift for Christmas? It was just a ploy to get something out of her, it had to be!

She eventually overdosed. I can see Ellen doing this too, and sooner than later. Especially with the gloomy attitude permeated in Pageboy.

While I would be shocked if a child star in a cult family did not experience some horrific shit growing up, it does not excuse her of being such a miserable person to be around. I cannot recall a single moment of pure joy so far. The few there are like great sex are immediately followed with “I was harassed by a crazy homeless man that definitely wanted to kill me for being gay!!!” I’d eat my hat if she does not have some flavor of personality disorder along with the hallucinations.
 
I’ve known several lesbians into or (participated in) roller derby, so it’s a well deserved stereotype IMO. I watched Whip It when it came out and thought lesbian Ellen Page being the star was fitting because of that.

Roller derby itself has historically been mostly all female teams/leagues. Probably inevitable for lesbians to be attracted to it like women’s soccer or volleyball.
Huh, I've never heard of something like that. That might explain a lot of things she writes in the book. But still, as another poster pointed out. The fact that this is a stereotype in a sport that underage girls make the majority, is a little bit odd.
 
This is the X Men 3 Cannes dress. No idea who that guy is and can't find any references. I don't know about her gender, but I can imagine not wanting to truss yourself up like a piece of meat to go to Cannes (famous for celebrity sex work). People will look at you in a certain way even if that's not why you're there.
That dress isn't particularly sexy/sexual or "trussed"-looking. Sure it's fitted through the body (and loose from the waist down), but it's not shocking or exploitative. She was 19, so was young, but not necessarily too young for the dress. And she herself (in excerpts clipped here; maybe she says more elsewhere in the book) spoke about it more as awful because it was so feminine and people really liked seeing her girly, not because she felt like a piece of meat.

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Actor's name is Ben Foster.

...Wait - holy shit! He played Russell in Six Feet Under! Which I just finally watched in the last month, only 20 years late. (btw, WORST finale ever, though it is hailed as one of the best ever. Extended torture. I bawled like a bpd teen. I was so mad at it for that. :'(:lit:)
 
The 19th century film she didn't make is Jane Eyre. Considering she takes the character's mindset home with her, if she had been able to get over the corset it might have been a good one for her because it's all about quiet resilience when the odds are stacked against you and your opportunities are limited by being a woman/'the weaker sex'. Me personally I wouldn't have wanted to sign up to star in a romance opposite Michael Fassbender, or watch tiny Ellen and Fassbender together. Ellen was replaced by Mia Wasikowska.
I was wondering what the role was. Mia was great in that. I can see why they cast Ellen, she does have a Jane-ness to her, but you're right; with Fassbender, it would not have worked.

I feel for her a bit because awards season is brutal and you have to be even more fake and "on" than even typical Hollywood stuff. People will snub you for awards if you don't hobnob well enough, and while an actor might not care, it feels like the entire film crew is depending on them to campaign well and put on a good show. She might have escaped if Juno stayed under mainstream attention.
 
And she herself (in excerpts clipped here; maybe she says more elsewhere in the book) spoke about it more as awful because it was so feminine and people really liked seeing her girly, not because she felt like a piece of meat.
Just to clarify a little, I mostly clip the large majority of the chapters in the book and tend to skip the most irrelevant stuff to get only the most (and I say this as a manner of speaking) important points in it. It's really my only rule in the book: taking away the filler and get to the point of her ramblings.

For example, in the first chapters she dedicates a whole chunk of text writing about the colossal Halifax Explosion of 1917, that nearly wiped out a town. And talking about poor queer people who probably died in the explosion. The sheer stupidity of that comparison speaks for itself and I don't think my commentary will do it justice.
 
I am too lazy (and sick) to go back to the other chapters but the roller derby movie it isn't the first time that she felt more comfortable in a production that had mostly women, right?
I'll make sure to include the chapters in the OP when I have the chance, but to ask your question, she had fun in the set of Juno as well, meeting new friends and having sex with one of the female leads of the movie as well.
 
Maybe she's had actual trauma in her life, but for sure she has waaaay more imagined trauma than actual trauma. She seems to almost romanticize trauma and neurosis
That’s what talk therapy does to people. They catastrophise everything and over examine every part of their lives so they become even more neurotic.

Therapy. Not even once.

If any of you Kiwis are a tad mental only do CBT as at least we know that works. The other stuff will make you worse.
 
That dress isn't particularly sexy/sexual or "trussed"-looking.
Trussed probably wasn't the right word to use, but it's a lot more exposing, particularly of her chest, than her regular t-shirt and jeans outfits, and the ruching emphasises both her chest and hips. I ided as trans for a short while as a teenager and have body based anxiety / mild gender dysphoria and I can definitely see why the dress was too much for her, even if objectively she looked nice. It would have been for me too. I think people here who think it's nothing to feel bad about (not traumatic, obviously) need to imagine going from deliberately covering yourself neck to ankle to desexualise yourself and then having to wear this and have everyone stare at you because you're (one of) the star of the movie. I can remember having extremely negative feelings around just having to dress up just for family parties, where I was related to the majority of the people there.
 
Her mother started bleaching her hair when she was very young. I think that's more likely the cause. I always wear my hair up and played sports (not sure what that has to do with anything, but okay) and my hairline is just fine.
Bleaching her hair probably did assist in her hair loss but if you put your hair up in a tight ponytail regularly it causes traction alopecia. Apparently it's really common in African american woman due to their braided hairstyles. A few even get hair transplants just like balding men do.
 
Trussed probably wasn't the right word to use, but it's a lot more exposing, particularly of her chest, than her regular t-shirt and jeans outfits, and the ruching emphasises both her chest and hips. I ided as trans for a short while as a teenager and have body based anxiety / mild gender dysphoria and I can definitely see why the dress was too much for her, even if objectively she looked nice. It would have been for me too. I think people here who think it's nothing to feel bad about (not traumatic, obviously) need to imagine going from deliberately covering yourself neck to ankle to desexualise yourself and then having to wear this and have everyone stare at you because you're (one of) the star of the movie. I can remember having extremely negative feelings around just having to dress up just for family parties, where I was related to the majority of the people there.
Again: It's one thing to have these feelings (understandable). It's another to write a whiny, histrionic, terribly written book about them, urging readers to understand why and how wearing a dress to an awards show is basically the holocaust.
 
Again: It's one thing to have these feelings (understandable). It's another to write a whiny, histrionic, terribly written book about them, urging readers to understand why and how wearing a dress to an awards show is basically the holocaust.
I know! I'm not defending Ellen, I was just responding to that comment that it's not as sexual as a lot of what you see at film premieres, but it definitely is compared to jeans and a t-shirt.
 
This is probably the more unpopular opinion, but I think she looked way better in her tomboy outfits than the dresses.
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I feel like the stylists couldn't seem to completely figure out what actually looked good on her when it came to the more feminine looks.
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She should have been wearing dresses that flare out more to give her more of an hourglass shape. Not outfits that accentuate her beanpole figure or grandma dresses.
Something like these dresses, which the equally tiny and petite Anna Kendrick is wearing.
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