Elliot Page remembers the first time, as a teen, he tried to tell a friend he might be bisexual — only for the friend to laugh at him and say he wasn’t.
Around the same time, he tried to tell his mother that, actually, he thought he might be gay.
She shut him down, too.
“She just snapped,” Page told CBC chief correspondent and host of The National Adrienne Arsenault in a Canadian exclusive interview. “She just yelled, ‘that doesn’t exist!’ So I was just like, okie doke.”
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But Page, 36, who’s best known for his Oscar-nominated role in Juno and his work in the films Inception and