Elliot Page has claimed that he and Juno co-star Olivia Thirlby had sex “all the time” while filming the hit 2007 movie days after talking of his secret romance with Kate Mara. While reminiscing in his new memoir, Pageboy, obtained by Page Six, the Oscar-nominated actor, 36, who at the time was known as Ellen Page prior to coming out as transgender in 2020, said he was immediately attracted to Thirlby, now 36, who was playing Juno’s best friend Leah in the film.
He writes: “I was taken aback the moment I saw Olivia Thirlby. She seemed so much older, capable, and centered.
“Sexually open, far removed from where I was at the time. But the chemistry was palpable, it pulled me in.”
Page recalled how the pair started “sucking face” in a hotel room after Thirlby admitted she was “really attracted” to him before he reciprocated her feeling.
The actor, who played pregnant teenager Juno MacGuff in the film, wrote: “It was on. I had an all-encompassing desire for her, she made me want in a way that was new, hopeful.”
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Page added it was one of the first times a sexual partner made him orgasm, MailOnline reports.
He claimed that he and Thirlby were having sex “all the time”, writing: “Her hotel room, in our trailers at work, once in a tiny, private room in a restaurant … We thought we were being subtle. Being intimate with Olivia helped my shame dissipate. I didn’t see a glint of it in her eyes and I wanted that — done feeling wretched about who I am.”
Around the time of the filming of Juno, they were both set to star as the title characters in Jack & Diane – a play about two young women who fall in love – however both of them dropped out before production.
Thirlby came out publicly as bisexual in 2011, and has been married to Jacques Pienaar since 2014.
This comes following Elliot’s claims that he had a secret relationship with Kate Mara after coming out as gay in 2014, while she was in a relationship with Max Minghella.
Page reflects how he and Kate, 40, had a fling while he filmed X-Men: Days of Future Past, and that Mara was “in love with two people”.
After four years of dating Kate and Max separated in 2014. She is now married to actor Jamie Bell, with whom she has two children.
Page writes: “The first person I fell for after my heart was broken was Kate Mara. She had a boyfriend at the time, the lovely and talented Max Minghella.”
“This was right after I’d come out as gay [in 2014] and it was a time of exploration and also heartbreak. I think my relationship, or whatever you want to call it with Kate, very much encapsulates a certain dynamic that I consistently found myself in, which was falling for people that — I think a lot of us do this — who aren’t fully available.
“And the sort of safety in that and the highs and the lows and the serotonin bump, and then it goes away. And I think that is definitely a pattern in my life.
“I think the love and care that we have for each other is it’s very own special thing. Separate from the intimacy that I write about.”
Page claimed that Max encouraged Kate to explore their relationship, saying that Mara told him: “I never thought I could be in love with two people and now I know I can.”
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