{"id":20604,"date":"2023-08-30T08:39:19","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T14:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=20604"},"modified":"2023-08-28T18:55:14","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T00:55:14","slug":"book-40-of-52-pageboy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/book-40-of-52-pageboy\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 40 (of 52) &#8211; Pageboy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_20605\" style=\"width: 340px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/pageboy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20605\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20605\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/pageboy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"330\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/pageboy.jpg 330w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/pageboy-194x300.jpg 194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20605\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pageboy: A Memoir &#8211; Elliot Page<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In <em>Pageboy<\/em>, Elliot Page documents his struggle with his sexuality, his assigned birth gender, and coming to terms with both while trying to build and maintain a career in Hollywood.\u00a0 He jumps around, from his childhood in Nova Scotia, Canada, to his involvement in hit films like <em>Juno<\/em> and the <em>X-Men<\/em> franchise, to his broken relationship with his father and stepmother, and to his love life, dropping the surprise of an affair with future <em>My Days of Mercy<\/em> co-star Kate Mara.<\/p>\n<p>Page first appeared on my radar in 2006 when I saw his surprising turn in <em>Hard Candy<\/em>. He became a breakout star the following year thanks to <em>Juno<\/em>, and, career-wise, hasn&#8217;t really looked back.\u00a0 His story is a sad one, as it took more than thirty years for him to get to a place where he is finally comfortable in his own skin.\u00a0 Hopefully, the future bodes well for him, and I look forward to seeing him back on my screen in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Pageboy, Elliot Page documents his struggle with his sexuality, his assigned birth gender, and coming to terms with both while trying to build and maintain a career in Hollywood.\u00a0 He jumps around, from his childhood in Nova Scotia, Canada, to his involvement in hit films like Juno and the X-Men franchise, to his broken [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9101,9003,5194,4975,9004,10758,346],"class_list":["post-20604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-elliot-page","tag-hard-candy","tag-juno","tag-kate-mara","tag-my-days-of-mercy","tag-pageboy","tag-x-men"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20606,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20604\/revisions\/20606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}