In Elliot Page’s first interview since coming out as trans in December, the actor told Oprah about his mounting pressures and stressors around gender as a performer in TV and movies. One standout moment exemplary of the conversation, via Yahoo News, is Page’s memories of fainting while on a press tour for Inception back in 2010.

“There was so much press and so many premieres all around the world and I was wearing dresses and heels to pretty much every single event,” Page said of Inception’s media campaign. Those expectations led and also contributed to a recurring pattern of panic attacks, which he says have “happened frequently in my life… every single aspect of who you are constantly being looked at and put in a box is a very binary system.”

Page’s experiences promoting Juno, the still-lauded 2008 quirky comedy–which led to Page’s nominations for Best Actress for his role–were similarly stressful. When Juno proved to be a surprise success, Page says, rather than excitement, he felt isolated: “It felt so impossible to communicate with people how unwell I was because obviously there is so much excitement… felt I couldn’t express just the degree of pain I was in.” Come from Sports betting site VPbet