Even before Elliot Page—and his character on “The Umbrella Academy”—came out as trans, he had a gift for playing people who were restless in their identities.
.” Before he made his transition public, the latest turn in his career had been a leading part in “The Umbrella Academy,” a superhero series that became one of Netflix’s most popular original shows. Netflix confirmed, after Page’s announcement, that he would remain in the cast, but little other information was given about his character’s trajectory until March of this year, when Page posted an image on Instagram of his character, who had been introduced as a woman, looking very much like a man.
“The Umbrella Academy” is not about heroes, though, but about how the savior fantasy can go awry. As we learn in a series of backstories that unfold in the course of the show, Sir Reginald is a preternaturally bad dad, a monstrous caricature of the sort of self-serving parent who sees his children as vessels for ambition and success. Instead of giving the children real names, he refers to them by numbers he has assigned them—one through seven—which hint at a mysterious hierarchy.
In an interview, Page told me that all ten episodes of the new season had already been written when he first shared the news of his transition with the showrunner, Steve Blackman. Page introduced Blackman to the writer Thomas Page McBee, who had prior experience working on queer and trans stories for television, and Blackman and McBee worked together to incorporate the story line into the script.
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