Elliot Page’s Umbrella Academy character will come out as Viktor

It Umbrella Academy season 3 — due out in June — will pick up with the Hargreeves staring down the Sparrow Academy, alternate versions of themselves and possibly their scariest matchup yet. However, Tuesday will be a different day. Umbrella AcademyStar Elliot Page has announced a timeline change that makes him happier. His character now goes by the name Viktor.

In posts on Twitter and Instagram, Page shared a new still of himself from the upcoming season, with the caption “Meet Viktor Hargreeves.” Netflix confirmed the announcement meant that Viktor would be coming out in season 3 of Umbrella Academy. After Page became a transman in December 2020, the change is made. Page uses the pronouns he/they.

Brand accounts of the show and Netflix celebrated the announcement. Umbrella AcademyGerard Way is an author who uses the he/they pronouns.

While it’s becoming more common, it’s still rare for trans actors to not only have an established (let alone prominent) role in a TV show, but to be able to transition as their character alongside themselves.

“I love that I am trans. And I love that I am queer,” Page wrote in their initial coming-out post. “And the more I hold myself close and fully embrace who I am, the more I dream, the more my heart grows and the more I thrive.”

Umbrella Academy season 3 will once again star Page, along with Tom Hopper, David Castañeda, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Robert Sheehan, Aidan Gallagher, Ritu Arya, and Adam Godley, as well as Colm Feore (as their Sparrow father Reginald) and Justin H. Min as Ben (although he is also part of the Sparrows).

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