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BuzzFeed speaks with Ellen Page and co-host Ian Daniel about their new Viceland TV series, which has them traveling around the globe exploring how LGBT communities exist in different cultures.
In a telephone interview with BuzzFeed News, Page and Daniel both touched upon some of the more emotional moments during filming.
"I think I expected to definitely have emotional experiences, I don't know if I would have anticipated...I don't think you can anticipate the actual degree of what you're going to feel," said Page of the eye-opening experience. “I’m a privileged person. I’m a privileged gay person. [The show] helped me understand, even more so, how much more vulnerable people are."
“Each episode you’re learning so much,” Daniel explained. “It’s these one-on-one interactions that are so rare, that you don’t have in your everyday life, so you come out of each episode expanding each time.”
Pictured above is Angeline Jackson, Executive Director and Co-Founder of Jamaica's Quality of Citizenship. Both Page and Daniel agreed that attending the very first Jamaican Pride Parade was a particularly emotional and rewarding experience. “I felt so humbled and privileged to be there,” Page said. “It was one of the more inspiring things I've ever seen. That was very big and special.”
"It will blow your mind how extraordinary they are," the actor said of the people she met while filming.
"At the end of the day, we hope to expand people's minds and their hearts. I don't know if that sounds cheesy but it's just that simple," Daniel concluded.
While most of the series focuses on exploring foreign cultures, the U.S.-based episode, as Page describes it, is one of reflection.
"You feel such a sadness and frustration and confusion for how much people have to struggle," Page said of her emotions after returning back home. " It’s so hard for me to wrap my head around why people are treated that way. And then, of course, you feel so inspired and so humbled by just how much you’ve been able to learn, how extraordinary people have been to us, how vulnerable and generous they are. That's what you're left with."
"I couldn't have even imagined being closer to Ian than I already was." Page said of their friendship. "He is the person I can safely say I don't know who I would be without."
Daniel quickly added, 'Ellen's going to make me cry."