As we get ready for the third season of The Umbrella Academy to arrive on Netflix this summer, series star Elliot Page has revealed that his character Vanya Hargreeves will be re-introduced as transgender Viktor Hargreeves in the upcoming season.
The story reflects Page’s own life after he came out as transgender in 2020. He played Vanya in the first two seasons of the series and in the second Vanya began a lesbian relationship, but his journey of self-identity will continue with his new decision in the third season. Page shared a first-look at Viktor over on his Twitter page.
Meet Viktor Hargreeves ☂️@UmbrellaAcad pic.twitter.com/ZraQNBhfTb
— Elliot Page (@TheElliotPage) March 29, 2022
Additionally, Netflix has released the official synopsis for the third season as the Umbrella Academy returns to the present day after their adventure in the 1960s only to discover the timeline has changed with the Hargreeves family now made up of the Sparrow Academy, a seemingly harder-edged version of Reginald Hargreeves’ collection of gifted youngsters. The synopsis reads:
In Season 3, after putting a stop to 1963’s doomsday, the Umbrella Academy return home to the present, convinced they prevented the initial apocalypse and fixed this godforsaken timeline once and for all. But after a brief moment of celebration, they realize things aren’t exactly (okay, not at all) how they left them. Enter the Sparrow Academy. Smart, stylish, and about as warm as a sea of icebergs, the Sparrows immediately clash with the Umbrellas in a violent face-off that turns out to be the least of everyone’s concerns. Navigating challenges, losses, and surprises of their own – and dealing with an unidentified destructive entity wreaking havoc in the Universe (something they may have caused) — now all they need to do is convince Dad’s new and possibly better family to help them put right what their arrival made wrong. Will they find a way back to their pre-apocalyptic lives? Or is this new world about to reveal more than just a hiccup in the timeline?
The Umbrella Academy season 3 sees the return of Elliot Page, Tom Hopper, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Robert Sheehan, David Castaneda, Aidan Gallagher and Colm Feore, alongside series newcomers Justin Cornwell, Britne Oldford, Jake Epstein, Genesis Rodriguez and Cazzie David as The Sparrow Academy.
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