in 2020, oscar nominated actor elliot page announced via his instagram that he is a transgender man. star of the x men series and hit filmsjuno and inception, as well as netflix super hit the umbrella academy, page has enjoyed the career heights actors could only dream of all the time crushed under the weight of a secret identity battle. now he s ready to share even more about his life, and he s invited us for a sit down chat to talk about his gender, his mental health and his career in hollywood. elliot page, welcome to the bbc. thank you so much for speaking to us. thanks for having me, for wanting to talk. how are you doing right now? i m doing pretty good, yeah! so we re here to talk about your book, pageboy. yourfirst book, your memoir. what made you want to write the book now? gosh! well, one of the reasons was that it really felt possible for the first time. in the past, before stepping into my truth, being in this body, there s no way i could have sat down and been
out on the streets. translation: being a young north african black or arab male in the estates. boys suffer abusive controlled racial profiling. now they are killing them. this is far from the first time this happens. i ve lived in france and i ve covered plenty of riots there. they re rarely as violent as these latest ones, and i ve seen for myself the way the french police deal with them with a ferocity that often shocks a mere anglo saxon. after the major riots of 2005, the police were given the kind of anti riot weapons which are banned in most european countries, and they use them. on average the french police kill four times as many people as they did only 12 years ago. the gendarmes, as opposed to the ordinary police, are courier soldiers. they re allowed to use armed force more easily than the police are. and there s a lot less political control over policing in france than there is, say, in germany or britain. the police deny that there s a culture of racism and br
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naples. the lazzerona. the popular. the naples of diego. the city owned by its people. naples. which usually loses, but occasionally manages to win. on may 4, napoli secured the italian football championship with a draw at udinese, a first serie a title for azzurri in 33 years the first since diego maradona. take six neapolitans, the class of 23, and view the achievement through their eyes. in naples, football is everything. it sjoy, it s love, it s fun, it s sadness. it is important to us to win against teams from the north. we are pending for this- moment since a long time. so we just feel this . power, this emotion. this year, all of the opponents fall down inter, milan, juventus with their problems. we have to think about the future. we have this great future we re on our roads. to be neapolitan is a dream. i say every time we are firsti of all neapolitans, and then italians. the 2022 23 season wasn t expected to pan out this way. napoli, under head coach luciano