Elliot Page has claimed he had a secret relationship with Kate Mara after he came out as gay in 2014 – who was dating Max Minghella.
The Juno star, 36, who came out as transgender in 2020, detailed in his memoir Pageboy how he and Kate, 40, started a blossoming romance. It is understood the pair grew close when he filmed X-Men: Days of Future Past.
The Hollywood actor says Kate was “in love with two people”, with the star famously dating The Handmaid’s Tale hunk at the time. Kate and Max ultimately went their separate ways in 2014 after four years of dating.
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She is now married to actor Jamie Bell, who she shares two children with. In an expert from his memoir, obtained by People, Page wrote: “The first person I fell for after my heart was broken was Kate Mara.
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“She had a boyfriend at the time, the lovely and talented Max Minghella. This was right after I’d come out as gay [in 2014] and it was a time of exploration and also heartbreak.
“I think my relationship, or whatever you want to call it with Kate, very much encapsulates a certain dynamic that I consistently found myself in, which was falling for people that – I think a lot of us do this – who aren’t fully available.”
He went on: “And the sort of safety in that and the highs and the lows and the serotonin bump, and then it goes away. And I think that is definitely a pattern in my like.
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“I think the love and care that we have for each other is it’s very own special thing. Separate from the intimacy that I write about.” Elliot and Max were supportive of Kate exploring their relationship – which was kept a secret from the world.
Kate allegedly told him: “I never thought I could be in love with two people and now I know I can.” The pair later played a couple in the movie My Days of Mercy which premiered in 2017 before being released in 2019, years after their romance.
Elliot publicly came out as a transgender man in December 2020 but revealed that he began “feeling like a boy” from as early as nine. In an extract shared by the publication, Elliot recalled being in a gay bar just a few months before the premiere of his breakout 2008 movie, Juno. At the bar he met a woman named Paula, who unwittingly helped him address the feelings of “shame” he had.
He wrote: “Dancing, sweat dripping down my back, down my chest. I watched Paula’s hair twist and bounce as she moved effortlessly, chaotic but controlled, sensual and strong. I would catch her looking at me, or was it the other way around?
“We wanted to be caught. Deer in the headlights. Startled, but not breaking.” After asking if he could kiss her, he continued: “And then I did. In a queer bar. In front of everyone around us.
“I was coming to understand what all those poems were about, what all the fuss was. Here I was, on a dance floor with a woman who wanted to kiss me and the antagonizing, cruel voice that flooded my head whenever I felt desire, was silent.”
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