It took a long time for him to return to the barber’s chair and ask to cut it short, but he got there. During the interview, Page keeps rearranging strands on his forehead. “No matter the challenges and difficult moments of this, nothing amounts to getting to feel how I feel now.” This includes having short hair again. “I’m really excited to act, now that I’m fully who I am, in this body,” Page says. Dustin J Higgs is innocent and on death row for a crime he didn't commit. This makes it URGENT to speak up for him, as the execution will happen TODAY, save the Supreme Court ruling in favor of staying Dustin's execution or a commutation from the White House. Whatever challenges might lie ahead, Page seems exuberant about playing a new spectrum of roles. SAVE DUSTIN J HIGGS UPDATE: Dustin's stay of execution was overturned by the DC Circuit. Yes, people accidentally use the wrong pronouns-“It’s going to be an adjustment,” Page says-but co-workers also see and acknowledge him. “There’s a lightness, a lot more smiling.” For Page, returning to set has been validating, if awkward at times. “It seems like there’s a tremendous weight off his shoulders, a feeling of comfort,” says showrunner Steve Blackman. Now on set filming the third season, co-workers have seen a change in the actor. “I related to how much Vanya was closed off,” Page says. The character can barely summon the courage to move through the world. Page was attracted to the role of Vanya in The Umbrella Academy because-in the first season, released in 2019-Vanya is crushed by self-loathing, believing herself to be the only ordinary sibling in an extraordinary family. But if we could just celebrate all the wonderful complexities of people, the world would be such a better place.” “People cling to these firm ideas because it makes people feel safe. Many of the political attacks on trans people-whether it is a mandate that bathroom use be determined by birth sex, a blanket ban on medical interventions for trans kids or the suggestion that trans men are simply wayward women beguiled by male privilege-carry the same subtext: that trans people are mistaken about who they are.