Ellen Page Tapped for Lesbian Role

10 months ago 28th Dec 10:05

"Every year the show wins the award for best animation and the producers invite a cast member to the ceremony. You go up on stage and they hand you the statue. If you're going to get it engraved, you hand it back to them - but I walked out with mine!" Ellen Page Tapped for Lesbian Role... Juno star Ellen Page will take on yet another controversial movie role - the actress has been tapped to play a lesbian in a new film based on a true story.

You go up on stage and they hand you the statue

Page, who played a pregnant teen in the 2007 film, will star in the forthcoming drama about Laurel Hester, a terminally ill New Jersey police officer who fought for pension benefits for her partner while battling lung cancer. Page will take on the role of Hester's partner Stacie in the film, reports Defamer.com.