- Elliot Web page revealed in his new memoir that he was “groomed” by a director when he was a young person.
- He didn’t identify the director nor say if it was somebody he had labored with.
- “His frequent texts made me really feel particular, as did the books he gifted me,” Web page wrote in “Pageboy.”
Elliot Web page revealed in his new memoir that he was “groomed” by a male filmmaker when he was a young person.
Web page, who didn’t disclose how outdated the director was on the time, wrote in his new memoir “Pageboy” that the unnamed filmmaker’s “frequent texts made me really feel particular, as did the books he gifted me.”
Web page implied that the grooming occurred when he was dwelling in Canada, as he described how the person “took me to dinner at Swan on Queen West,” a French diner in downtown Toronto.
Web page wrote that whereas “stroking my thigh underneath the desk” the director whispered to him: “You need to make the transfer, I am unable to.”
In a chapter titled “Leeches,” Web page shared a number of different examples of instances when he was touched in a sexual method by adults when he was nonetheless a young person and earlier than he underwent his gender transition from feminine to male.
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He wrote that “on a undertaking not lengthy earlier than” the encounter with the director, “a crew member had performed the identical.”
“In between takes he would discuss to me about artwork and movies, Kubrick naturally. He invited me to hang around on a Saturday afternoon,” he wrote. “After a stroll within the rain he grabbed me, asserting we go upstairs. Pulling me in to his physique, I may really feel his arduous cock in opposition to me.”
Whereas taking pictures the film “Onerous Sweet” in Los Angeles when he was 17, Web page recounted having unwilling intercourse with a person who he stated labored on the movie and who has gone on to change into a director himself.
“He was humorous and unusual, and he was type to me. We spoke about books, mentioned movies and obscure, miserable graphic novels,” he wrote. “A glint in his eyes made me really feel seen, supported. He had a sweetness even.”
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After the movie’s wrap occasion, Web page stated that the person drove them again to Web page’s condo and adopted him in, guiding him into the bed room with “his fingers on my shoulders.”
Web page wrote that he “went stiff with a smile,” and was “not sure what to do.”
“He laid me down on the mattress. Beginning to take away my pants, he stated, ‘I wish to eat you out.’ I froze. After it was over, he tried to remain within the mattress with me. I had thawed marginally and informed him he could not, to get out. He slept on the sofa.”
He additionally wrote a few repeated incident with a feminine crew member who assaulted him all through the course of their time engaged on a special movie.
Web page wrote that he felt his confusion over his id and sexuality — which started at age six when he requested his mom, “Can I be a boy?” — made him “an ideal goal” for sexual predators.
“As puberty transmuted me into a personality I had little interest in taking part in, my isolation, insecurity, and unknowing grew. I desperately wanted to anchor myself,” he wrote. “In new cities, with no associates, alone in lodge rooms, it was not arduous for somebody to prey. I am certain they sense that.”
“Pageboy” by Elliot Web page is out now.