Elliot Page Calls Out The Makers Of ‘Flatliners’, Alleges Being Treated With “Flippancy & Disrespect”
Elliot Web page has slammed the set of the ‘Flatliners’ remake as “reckless and harmful”.
The 36-year-old ‘Juno’ actor performed medical scholar Courtney Holmes within the reboot of the 1990 movie alongside Kiersey Clemons, Diego Luna, Nina Dobrev and James Norton, and stated it went “off the rails”.
He stated in his ‘Pageboy’ memoir: “An excellent solid, a cult basic, it was set to be nice. Nevertheless it went off the rails, a type of films that could be a true mess from the very starting.”
Elliot bought involved with a behind-the-scenes alternate as he and Kiersey, now 29, had been on the point of shoot a getaway scene from hospital safety, and realised they’d no “built-in thick seat belt” like everybody else.
Elliot stated he was informed he can be “wonderful” by a stunt coordinator and stated somebody informed Kiersey: “It’ll be even higher if you happen to aren’t strapped in.”
He added they need to have “eliminated ourselves, referred to as somebody, stated one thing”.
However he stated as they’d been “conditioned” to know the significance of assembly capturing deadlines they went forward and had been plunged into “a level of depth we didn’t fairly anticipate”.
The actor added how one other take noticed a stunt driver all of a sudden slam on the brakes on account of a random particular person having unintentionally pushed onto the road that had been blocked off for filming.
He stated: “Fortunately everybody was wonderful. However I believe again to how reckless and harmful that was. How Kiersey and I had been handled with such flippancy and disrespect.
“No matter a stranger’s automobile making it onto the closed set of a automobile chase, what if one thing simply… went mistaken?”
Elliot, who got here out as trans in December 2020, added one of many ‘Flatliners’ producers questioned whether or not the actor was “mad” his character wasn’t homosexual.
The movie boss had apparently thought Elliot was upset about his feminine character’s sexuality after he expressed doubt she would put on skirts and heels throughout her medical residency.
Elliot added: “My astonishment morphed right into a quiet boil. ‘Your view of ladies is egregiously slim,’ I stated to the person, reminding him lesbians put on skirts, too.”
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