Elliot Page Got Shingles on ‘Inception’ Set and ‘Felt Out of Place’ in a ‘Cast Full of Cis Men’: ‘I Didn’t Understand th

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Elliot Page reveals in his new memoir, “Pageboy,” that he developed shingles on the set of Christopher Nolan’s “Inception” due to the anxiety that came with feeling out of place among the cast. Page starred opposite Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy and Joseph Gordon-Levitt in the cerebral thriller

“Shingles popped out of my spine while filming ‘Inception’ when I was 22,” Page writes (via Insider). “Despite everyone being delightful to work with, I felt out of place. In a cast full of cis men, I did not understand the role I found myself in.”

Page adds, “For the first two weeks of the film I joked I would be recast with Keira Knightley, and rightfully so.”