Choose Your Own Adventure: Elliot Page is Coming To Your Big and Little Screens Soon
This week, Netflix dropped the trailer for the upcoming fourth and final season of The Umbrella Academy, which features Elliot Page’s Viktor working with his siblings to save the world…or, at the very least, not destroy it themselves.
In case you haven’t been following along with the comic-book-inspired show, Page’s character came out as a trans man last season without fanfare; there were some really brief and lovely coming out scenes, his siblings showing a range of emotions from supportive to indifferent, and then everyone moved on with their “tiny badass brother” Viktor, back to (chaotic) business as usual. I’m excited to see what the final chapter of this series has in store for Viktor, and his powers that he doesn’t seem to quite have a handle on just yet.
And if movies are more your jam, you’re in luck, because The Umbrella Academy isn’t the only place you can find Elliot Page these days. He’s coming back to his roots on the silver screen in the movie Close to You, in which he stars in a story he co-wrote and co-produced. The story is about a trans man, Sam, who goes back to see family for the first time since he transitioned, after four years away. The cast also includes gender-fluid actor Sook-Yin Lee. The movie hits theaters on August 16th.
Both of these Elliot Page ventures will be available next month.
More News for All Your Screens
+ Billie Eilish’s Chicken Shop Date with host Amelia Dimoldenberg made the internet sweat a little (I don’t watch this show, is the flirting always this ramped up??? Phew!)
+ Reneé Rapp got slimed at the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards (and took thirst traps about it after)
+ Stranger Things dropped a Season 5 behind-the-scenes sneak peek video, with a brief glimpse of Maya Hawke
+ Queer actress Isabela Merced is in upcoming Alien: Romulus and says it will scar kids for life if they see it
+ And speaking of miss booked and busy, Isabela Merced is also going to be Hawkgirl in the upcoming Superman movie
+ A Lilith Fair documentary is coming our way soon
+ Check out this cute little gay webseries about a science sleuth whose computer likes to turn on bisexual lighting at just the right moment
+ There’s something called Catnado coming, and while the content might not be queer in nature, it did feel like something the community needed to know about
+ Related, there’s also a movie called Hundreds of Beavers (that is apparently delightful…but not about what I thought it was before I clicked)
+ The cult classic musical TV show SMASH is now streaming on Peacock, likely in anticipation of the upcoming Broadway musical based on the show
+ JoJo Siwa is coming back to reality television…on a show made by the same people who created the show she grew up being publicly abused on
+ Billie Eilish is going to read a bedtime story to kiddos on a BBC children’s show
+ Katie McGrath is going to star in the second season of Ex-Wife on Paramount+
At the very least it has Teri Polo in it.
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Re the flirting in Chicken Shop Date – the premise of the show is that Amelia’s looking for love and going on dates with all her guests, so she’s always flirtatious to some degree or another. But the dynamic really depends on the other guest – Billie was definitely one of the more flirtatious guests and the vibe between them was more flirtatious than it often is. They’re always fun and interesting to watch!
I was actually a little let down with how not a big deal it was for Viktor to come out. Not in the sense that i wanted there to be a Family Overcomes Transphobia storyline but rather that i think they should have explicity touched on the whole being brainwashed as a child thing in relation to his coming out. There could have been some great commentary there about who exactly is doing the brainwashing of children when it comes gender. I mean, it could have been such an easy plot point to connect ‘my sister brainwashed me as a kid to think i am absolutely normal, so being miserable and depressed about my gender is just how everyone feels’, to realizing ‘oh wait, being misable and drepessed about your gender is not normal’. Still have his siblings be supportive of him coming out but also more overtly acknowledge how his father had a hand in preventing him from coming out.
Anyway, missed opportunity, i guess that’s what fanfiction is for.
Drew calls Close To You “the most disappointing” narrative film at Toronto International Film Festival. Probably gonna skip that one.