Elliot Page suffered a bout of stress-induced shingles while filming the 2010 hit Beginning– due to feeling “out of place” amongst cisgender costars Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon Levitt, Tom Hardy and Cillian Murphy.

Page made the revelation in Pageboy, the star’s recently published memoir. In it, Page reflects on his life– from his kid fame in Canada to U.S. development (thanks to 2007’s Juno), and the way he came to grips with his identity in the public eye.

Although Page, who came out as transgender in 2020, preserves that everybody on the Inception set was “wonderful to work with, I felt out of location. In a cast loaded with cis males, I did not comprehend the role I found myself in.”

The internal conflict resulted in Page getting shingles.

” Shingles interacted the stress my body felt. It popped out of my spinal column while shooting Inception when I was twenty-two.”

Shingles is a reactivation of the varicella-zoster virus– the very same virus that triggers chicken pox– according to the Mayo Clinic. While it isn’t lethal, “it can be very unpleasant.”

The National Institute of Health found that “high levels of psychological tension” can trigger the onset of shingles, which is marked by uncomfortable chicken pox-like blisters.

Page, now 36, was states he was under stress while recording the Christopher Nolan-directed epic, writing, “‘ For the first 2 weeks of the film, I joked I would be modified with Keira Knightley, and truly so.”

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It’s the latest revelation from Pageboy, in which the actor also discussed shocking moments from his past, such as the time an A-list star attacked him at a 2014 party soon after Page had come out as gay.

The actor, whom Page describes as an “associate,” told Page that “you aren’t gay. That doesn’t exist. You are simply afraid of males.” He then informed Page: “I’m going to f– k you to make you understand you aren’t gay.”

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They saw each other at the gym a few days later on. The star said, “I do not have a problem with gay people I swear.”

” I think you might,” Page replied.

In the book, Page likewise praises those who supported him on his journey– consisting of Catherine Keener, whom he satisfied on the set of the 2007 drama An American Crime.

” Catherine I’ve understood since I was 19, and she’s been among the most important individuals in my life … During the whole sort of Juno awards season time– which was overwhelming to state the least– she let me deal with her,” Page recalls.

” She has been somebody that I could depend on and go to without question. Because I’ve fulfilled her, she’s one of the closest people to me in my life. And among those individuals who you do not truly know who you ‘d be without.”

Page writes that Whip It costars Kristen Wiig and Alia Shawkat were other sources of support..

” Kristen, who, in fact I first fulfilled on SNL however on Whip It correctly, is also someone who at extremely difficult, difficult minutes in my life simply appeared. It was not unexpected since she’s an amazing individual. Alia has actually also been an individual in my life who, like Kristen, just constantly encouraged me to be my genuine self.”.

Prior to the release of Pageboy, the actor told PEOPLE that he was “a little overwhelmed” about releasing the book, “but grateful.”.

” I didn’t believe I might compose a book,”

” Books, particularly memoirs, have truly shifted my life, offered me inspiration, convenience, been humbling, all of those things. And I think this duration of not simply hate, of course, however false information or just outright lies about LGTBQ+ lives, about our health care, it felt like the right time.”.

And as Page told PEOPLE, “There’s clearly been extremely difficult moments. I do feel like I kind of hardly made it in numerous ways. Today, I’m simply me and grateful to be here and alive and taking one action at a time.”.