There was a catharsis, Elliot Page says, in portraying a man who had recently transitioned visiting his family for the first time as who he really is. The Umbrella Academy actor, 37, who came out as a trans man in 2020, says he doesn’t think he’d have been able to play Sam – the lead in Dominic Savage’s largely improvised drama Close to You – prior to his transition: “There is no way… that I would have been able to feel comfortable and present and grounded enough to actually exist and create that openly,” he says.