Inside Alexander Skarsgard's Relationship With Elliot Page

There's something about human nature that makes us automatically want actors with on-screen chemistry to be together in real life. When co-stars can so heavily push the narrative that their relationship is real, we want to believe it. And there are certainly cases where this was true –just look at Ryan Reynolds and Black Lively, Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes, or Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis. But as for Elliot Page and Alexander Skarsgard? Their relationship was never anything more than an act.

The pair co-starred in the 2013 film "The East," and after a photo of the two of them cozying up together with Skarsgard giving Page a kiss on the forehead, fans couldn't help but ship the couple at the time. Page had not yet come out as gay or transgender at the time, so fans hoped the two were an item. In addition, it didn't help that the film's director, Zal Batmanglij, was the one that originally tweeted out the photo, making the speculation of a relationship even more raging. But they, of course, are no more than friends.