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Juno star Elliot Page, Marina Hyde on holier-than-thou Holly, and the Secret Tory comes clean

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The Importance of Being Authentic

Paige says he was under intense pressure to be not only closeted, but to act and appear and perform like someone I wasn't. He had never held a partner's hand in public, never brought a girlfriend to an event,. always got separate rooms. The actor being told not to be your authentic self "made me extremely unwell" By 2010 he was being cast in big budget films such as Christopher Nolan's Inception, and he'd had enough.

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