Mexico City.- Sir Ian McKellen said he was happy for Elliot Page, formerly known as Ellen, who last month publicly announced that she was a trans person.
The actor, who collaborated with Page on the film X-Men: The Final Battle, also regretted that he did not realize that his partner had identity problems.
“Everything gets better when you accept who you are, because you have more confidence. Everything is better in terms of your relationships, with your friends, with your family, if you’re lucky. In my case, my histrionics have been about change. and improvement, “McKellen told Attitude Magazine.
In early December, Page posted a message on his networks in which he made his gender identity known and asked to be identified with the pronouns he / she had.
The interpreter of Magneto, in the saga of the film, remembered that Page was a person whose voice had a very low volume, because he was not sure.
“And years later he said he’s gay and suddenly he won’t stop talking and you listened to everything. And now it’s Elliot, I’m very happy for him and I’m also disappointed that I didn’t detect the difficulties that he had to communicate with them, “he added.
Since 1988, the year he made his homosexuality public, McKellen has become one of the most prominent British figures in the LGBT + community and has acknowledged that his profession has been favored by his openness.
“One of the first plays I did, after I made my orientation public, was Uncle Vanya, at the National Theater, and I remember in act three, when Vanya is at the height of her misery, that I began to cry.
“I could never cry, but now I could because it was more me, more real. This was my contribution to the work and the character,” he told the publication.