Ellen Page: It’s not ‘brave’ to play gay

Actress Ellen Page said on Thursday that straight Hollywood stars are not courageous for taking on gay roles.

“When people are [called] brave in regards to playing LGBTQ people, that’s borderline offensive,” she said, according to Time magazine.

“I’m never going to be considered brave for playing a straight person, and nor should I be,” said Page, who last year publicly revealed she is lesbian.

“Maybe this is a bad thing to say, but I have a hard time when people call actors brave,” the “Juno” star added. “I don’t really get that, because our job is to read something on a page.”

Page’s remarks follow her confrontation with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) over his position on workplace protections for gay employees earlier this month.

“LGBT people [are] being fired for just strictly being gay or trans,” she said to Cruz during the Iowa State Fair on Aug. 21.

{mosads}“[The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria] is executing gay people, Iran is executing homosexuals, and on the left, you hear complete silence about Iran hanging homosexuals,” responded Cruz, expanding the discussion to LGBT rights worldwide.

“That’s not true,” Page countered. “Christians in Russia, Christians in Uganda, Christians in Jamaica, all persecuting gays to a really, really violent extent.”

“Does that trouble you at all that you draw a moral equivalence between Christians in Jamaica and radical Islamic terrorists in ISIS that are beheading children?” asked Cruz, a 2016 GOP presidential candidate.

“They’re not morally equivalent,” he added. “Murder is murder is murder, and it is wrong, it’s wrong across the board.”

Page argued on Thursday that Americans are hungry for entertaining stories featuring all minorities, not just the LGBT community.

“It’s evident from what people are watching on television that people want diversity,” she said, citing the success of Netflix’s “Orange is the New Black” series.

“I want to see gay stories, of course, because I’m gay, and I want to connect to a reflection of my life on film,” Page added. “But I also want to see what it’s like to be a young Native person, African American, African-Canadian. Hopefully that will keep changing.”