Ian McKellen reveals he’s ‘so happy’ his X-Men co-star Elliot Page came out as transgender

He is one of many UK’s most high-profile public figures to return out as homosexual.

And 32 years after his personal acknowledgement of his sexuality, Sir Ian McKellen is praising Elliot Web page for saying final month that he’s transgender.

The 2 labored collectively on the 2006 Hollywood film X-Males Final Stand and the British actor informed Attitude journal he is ‘very completely satisfied’ for Web page.

Web page performed Shadowcat in Final Stand that got here out the 12 months earlier than his starring position within the indie movie Juno put him, then as Ellen Web page, on the map. 

McKellen, who starred within the X-Males movies as Magneto, informed the journal that he’s ‘so upset’ he failed to understand that the then teenage Web page was fighting sexual identification. 

‘I keep in mind Elliot Web page, in one of many X-Males, sat as shut as we are actually. And I needed to communicate once they’d completed, and I could not hear what they had been saying. No person might hear what they had been saying,’ he recalled.

‘So, I stated, ‘Look, if you cannot communicate up, would you thoughts whenever you’re completed talking, simply dropping your hand so I do know whenever you’ve completed talking?’

He went on: ‘After which they got here out [as gay] years later and immediately you could not cease them speaking. You heard every part.’ 

Did not see: McKellen admitted he’s ‘so upset’ he failed to understand that the then teenage Ellen Web page was fighting sexual identification on the time of constructing 2006’s X-Males: Final Stand

Huge display screen position: The veteran British actor starred as Magneto within the X-Males franchise

Fact: ‘The whole lot will get higher [when you come out] since you get self-confidence’, he defined. ‘You get higher by way of relationships, mates of all types, household, for those who’re fortunate’

McKellen, 81, stated: ‘I am so completely satisfied for Elliot. And so upset in myself that I did not detect what their issue was with speaking.’

‘The whole lot will get higher [when you come out] since you get self-confidence’, he defined. ‘You get higher by way of relationships, mates of all types, household, for those who’re fortunate. And in my case, I believe in each case, your appearing is sure to alter and enhance.’

McKellen got here out in 1988 as a protest towards then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s  part 28 that forbade native authorities and colleges from ‘selling homosexuality’.

Activist: McKellen, proper, got here out in 1988 as a protest towards Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s part 28 that forbade native authorities and colleges from ‘selling homosexuality’

Courageous: Web page, pictured in 2019, got here out in an Instagram publish on December 1, sharing: ‘Hello mates, I need to share with you that I’m trans, my pronouns are he/they and my identify is Elliot’

Web page got here out in an Instagram publish on December 1, sharing: ‘Hello mates, I need to share with you that I’m trans, my pronouns are he/they and my identify is Elliot.

‘I really feel fortunate to be penning this. To be right here. To have arrived at this place in my life,’ he stated. ‘I can not start to precise how outstanding it feels to lastly love who I’m sufficient to pursue my genuine self.’

Web page added: ‘I have been endlessly impressed by so many within the trans neighborhood. Thanks in your braveness, your generosity and ceaselessly working to make this world a extra inclusive and compassionate place

‘I’ll supply no matter help I can and proceed to try for a extra loving and equal society.’ 

Grateful: Web page not too long ago returned to social media to thank individuals for his or her outpouring of affection and help after he got here out