“The Umbrella Academy”: Elliot Page announced the new name that his character will carry in the series

The Canadian actor shared the first glimpse of his return to Netflix television fiction, after he revealed to the world that he identifies as transgender in December 2020

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Finally, it was confirmed that Elliot Page will identify with a male gender in the fictional universe of The Umbrella Academy. Through his social networks, the Canadian actor shared the first photograph of his character in the third season of the hit Netflix series that will arrive in June of this year. “Meet Viktor Hargreeves,” he wrote in the caption of the official picture.

In December 2020, Page shared an emotional letter with the world in which he revealed that he identified himself as a transgender person and asked that they use male and neutral pronouns to refer to him from that moment on. “I feel lucky to be writing this. Of being here. Having arrived at this place in my life,” he said in the statement he posted from his Instagram profile.

The Umbrella Academy Season 3 (Netflix)
The series is based on comics of the same name created by Gerard Way, the vocalist of My Chemical Romance, and Gabriel Bá. (Netflix)

“I feel overwhelming gratitude for the amazing people who have supported me throughout this journey. I fall short of expressing how extraordinarily good I feel to love myself at last, for being who I am and for having pursued my true identity. I am deeply inspired by the trans community,” he added.

Soon after, he joined the filming of the new episodes of The Umbrella Academy, television fiction based on the comics of the same name created by Gerard Way (vocalist of My Chemical Romance) and Gabriel Bá. He and other actors shared some photographs and videos from the shoot, but the change from his character was kept totally secret by the production until today.

The Umbrella Academy (Netflix)
The new episodes of “The Umbrella Academy” will arrive on June 22. (Netflix)

Who will return in season 3 of The Umbrella Academy?

The familiar faces that will return in this new installment will be Viktor (Elliot Page), Cinco (Aidan Gallagher), Klaus (Robert Sheehan), Allison (Emmy Raver-Lampman), Diego (David Castañeda), Ben (Justin H. Min), Luther (Tom Hopper), Sir Reginald (Colm Feore) and Lila (Ritu Arya). And the ones that will be introduced are Justin Cornwell, Britne Oldford, Jake Epstein, Genesis Rodriguez and Cazzie David as the members of the Sparrow, who had a cameo appearance in the final episode of the previous season.

Sparrow Academy appears in the original comics, although originally, the leader of the group is not Reginald, but a former colleague of his named Deever, and the headquarters are located in Norway. They are also a team of superheroes and considered a distant family by the members of Umbrella Academy, because they too are among the children who were born simultaneously on October 1, 1989. They are distinguished by wearing a heroic red, black and silver outfit with the logo of a sparrow.

Official posters of the Sparrow. (Netflix)
The members of the Sparrow family will be the new antagonists of history. (Netflix)

The next chapters of The Umbrella Academy will be released on June 22 in Netflix.

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