Elliot Page recalls double date with Leonardo DiCaprio and his mum

Elliot Page has detailed the moment that he went on a double date with Leonardo DiCaprio and his mother.

The 36-year-old, who came out as transgender in 2020, opened up about his dating history in the pages of his candid new memoir, Pageboy, which is on bookshelves now.

Discussing his love life, the Umbrella Academy actor revealed that he was filming 2010 flick Inception with the Titanic legend, when he took a liking to his pal – known only as ‘Peter’.

‘While filming Inception, a friend of Leonardo DiCaprio’s visited and we had a lovely connection,’ he wrote, via the MailOnline.

‘Peter was warm to everyone, eyes beaming with care. When I saw Leo next, I told him I liked his friend, to which he responded that his friend liked me, too.

‘For our first date we went to Universal Studios with Leo and his mother. Peter and I sat close on the rides, our thighs just touching.’

Elliot said that his own mother, Martha, was ‘over the moon’ by the news of their brief romance after she expressed disappointment over his previous relationships with women.

He explained that the fling wasn’t to be and ended after ‘a month, maybe two,’ comparing the experience to high school.

The star came out as gay in 2014 and described that time as an area of ‘exploration and also heartbreak’ as he fell for people who ‘aren’t fully available.’

Elsewhere in the book, he reflected on his journey to stardom while filming Juno as a teenager – revealing that he fell for co-star Olivia Thirlby on set.

In the pages, according to Page Six, he described her as appearing ‘so much older, capable, and centered. Sexually open, far removed from where I was at the time. But the chemistry was palpable, it pulled me in.’

Elliot shared that they went on to become friends, after which she told him that she was ‘really attracted’ to him, and they began having sex ‘all the time.’

‘She made me want in a way that was new, hopeful. It was one of the first times someone would make me cum, the first time I would open up,’ he reportedly wrote.

He said that their romance made him feel ‘less wretched about who I am’, recalling that they were intimate ‘everywhere,’ from hotel rooms to their trailers at work and even in a restaurant, and ‘thought we were being subtle.’

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