Gender euphoria at the dentist, looking as though she's just been interrogated by the KGB:
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I think she probably doesn't leave the house much any more if she's taking selfies at the dentist.
The showrunner for Umbrella Academy is taking most of the backlash for season 4, apparently he ran a hostile set:
Must be uncomfortable if you know everyone blames him but he blames you.
The only notable example I have outside of Page is Demi Lovato, who I think has steadily been gravitating back to womanhood since tanking her career going down LBGT-Avenue-Q.
Her career was dead, and she was a joke (poot lovato) until the nickolodeon child abuse scandal. She's making her own version of that documentary, supposedly with interviews from some bigger names, due to come out soon. She's taken pronouns out of her bio - she used to be a they/them then a she/they.
In a trailer for the Hulu documentary Child Star, Demi Lovato claimed that the “popular girls” drafted a petition “saying that I should kill myself” when she was a Disney Channel actor. Her directorial debut, the doc details Lovato’s experiences and those of other former child actors, featuring dark anecdotes from actors Drew Barrymore, Keenan Thompson, Jojo Siwa and others. Lovato was 7 years old when she started acting on Barney and Friends, and she has previously spoken about how this led to substance abuse issues and suicide attempts, with her overdosing in 2018 after taking fentanyl laced drugs. Barrymore has claimed on multiple occasions that she began using “substances” at 10 years old. During an episode of her Drew Barrymore Show, the actress shared that she celebrated her “10th birthday at Limelight,” the famed New York City nightclub. The doc airs on September 17.
I've met lesbians that date lesbian ftms, but I think they're willing to date them because their damage means that they won't leave / will put up with their own issues and damage in return. They didn't seem to be healthy relationships.
recent Ellen interviews on Close to You:
From the improvisatory process miracles of naturalism emerge, such as the moment when Sam’s sweet but twitchy mother, played by Wendy Crewson, accidentally misgenders him. Was that a genuine slip of the tongue?
“It was!” laughs Page. “I feel weird because I get misgendered all the time, and I don’t care unless someone’s trying to, you know …” He wrinkles his nose to indicate dubious motives. “I want to be clear: I wouldn’t correct Wendy as me. I’d be like: ‘It’s fine. We’re going to move on from the moment. It takes a second.’ But, you know, I’m not me. I’m Sam here. And that moment was so perfect because that’s what happens.” Page’s own mother does her best, he says. “She’s pretty good. I’m like, ‘Of course, it’s going to take you a second, mom. It’s fine. You don’t need to beat yourself up about it!’”
Also, apparently Ellen's character is named Sam after Sam Cooke, a musician. I didn't know who that was but having googled him I don't think he'd welcome the comparison.
Paul asks if he still can call Sam "Sammy." Sam says no because he goes by Sam now. Paul complains that he doesn't know the rules for speaking about Sam.
Page recognized how Paul claimed to be asking questions, but really wanted to argue about Sam's answers.
"He gets the answer, but that answer doesn't satisfy him," Page said. "My body went, 'I know what this guy is doing right now.'"
In real life, Page said, he avoids giving such provocateurs the satisfaction of indulging them. In Sam's case, he was stuck at his family's house with Paul.
"I could tell that that's what they wanted," Page said of recent real-life encounters. "They wanted me to get upset and I decided to just not engage in that particular moment."
This is really accurate because 'sammy' would still be a perfectly normal nickname for a boy / your son but forcing compliance means it's not OK.
After the scene, Page said the cast had a group hug. Reale also was kind to Page when he was not playing Paul, Page said.
"He's such a nice guy who plays such a good [expletive]," Page said. "Even just down to his little smirks and glares, I'm like, how are you so nice but so good at playing such a jerk?"
it's called acting, Ellen.
You may know Elliot Page as the world’s most famous transgender actor. You may know him as Viktor Hargreeves from hit Netflix show The Umbrella Academy. You may know him for being Oscar-nominated at the age of 20 for his breakthrough role in Juno. But what you may not know, is that the 37-year-old Canadian actor, like many of us Brits, grew up watching Coronation Street.
“My mum was obsessed with Coronation Street, so that was always on when I was a kid. I don’t think at the time that I clocked the trans representation in the show, but that’s how bits and pieces began to pop up,” says Page from home in New York. The bits and pieces he refers to are his earliest memories of trans representation on screen – Coronation Street’s Hayley Cropper appeared in 1998 and was the first transgender character to appear in a British TV soap.
Beyond Weatherfield, Page notes that the trans characters he grew up with were sparse, and oftentimes, centred around transphobic storylines. A particular film comes to mind: “Ace Ventura [Pet Detective] was absolutely one of my favourite movies as a kid, but then… eugh, thinking back to that,” he shakes his head and trails off, referring to the Jim Carrey comedy where the villain is revealed to be a trans woman. Within queer communities, it is known as one of the worst moments in trans film history. “The trans representation I can think of was mainly in that movie, which is unfortunate.”
Coronation Street for the non-brits: One of the longest running Corrie characters is called Roy Cropper, and he's originally introduced as stalking a female main character, until she finds out that he's just socially awkward, lonely and wants to be friends. He's a train and bus watcher who was obsessively close to his mum, he's basically supposed to have aspergers.
Hayley was introduced when they decided to give him a girlfriend:
"It was decided that Roy needed a girlfriend, but what kind of woman would go for Roy, or vice-versa? Ideally, she would have to be a female mirror image of himself. So the character started development and Hayley Patterson...was created. But then someone suggested something; what if she had a dark secret? What if she was transsexual!? Hayley being Harry, in her past life. After some argument and hard thinking, the idea stuck. It was a very controversial move for the long-running show... 'Corrie' had never gone this far."
Even in 1998 they knew about the connection between being trans and autistic.
So they had a bunch of plotlines about whether he could really date someone who used to be Harold, but the alternative is being alone, and he eventually decides he can after she goes to Amsterdam and gets GRS. (Also Hayley was played by an actual woman). They get married in the railway station with all the guests arriving by steam train. They were actually a genuinely really popular couple, and very sweet, until in 2013 Hayley developed pancreatic cancer, took assisted suicide medication at home with Roy and died in his arms. Roy's still on the show.
'come a cropper' is
british slang for having something bad happen, either a physical injury or because you've fucked up; it was always part of the joke with Roy and Hayley. This is probably my new favourite fact about Ellen. It's funny if you're british.
