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Ellen Page: It’s ‘borderline offensive’ to call straight actors ‘brave’ for playing gay
Ellen Page has said it is ‘borderline offensive’ to call straight actors ‘brave’ for taking on gay roles.
In an interview with Time, it was suggested that the openly gay actress was ‘brave’ to play a lesbian dying of cancer in her upcoming film Freeheld.
‘Maybe this is a bad thing to say, but I have a hard time when people call actors brave,’ she responded.
‘I don’t really get that, because our job is to read something on a page.’
The 28-year-old added: ‘When people are [called] brave in regards to playing LGBTQ people, that’s borderline offensive.’
‘I’m never going to be considered brave for playing a straight person, and nor should I be.’
Page recently confronted Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz about his discrimination of LGBTI people in the name of ‘religious freedom,’ and she addressed the debate in the interview.
‘The tricky thing about religion is you can’t even have a conversation. You just cannot have a conversation. It doesn’t affect me: For me it goes in one ear and out the other,’ she said.
‘But when you think of young people who are potentially being preached to by said person and their parents believe it, and they happen to be gay or trans or what-have-you, they’re going to have a really, really challenging time.
‘And that’s what’s so sad about it. Getting infused with that amount of shame into your body and into your mind. Potentially getting kicked out of your house. Potentially in a place where you’re homeless and every night of your life is life-or-death. That’s when I have no time for this religious argument.
‘I don’t understand being part of a religion where your religious liberty or your religious freedom is based on other people not being treated equally. I don’t understand that – I really don’t.
Page said she is often told that she will find God and be with a man.
Her response: ‘Well, not gonna happen, but you enjoy your time in heaven. I’ll be down in hell.’
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