It was only a week ago that Ellen Page was grilling a Republican presidential candidate over LGBTQ issues. Now the actor, who has been a staunch advocate for LGBTQ rights since coming out in 2014, has turned her attention to the attitudes surrounding her work.

In an interview with TIME, she calls out people praising her simply for playing a gay character. "When people are [called] brave in regards to playing LGBTQ people, that’s borderline offensive," she said. "I’m never going to be considered brave for playing a straight person, and nor should I be."

In fact, hero-worshipping actors for doing what they're paid for is something she generally disagrees with: "Maybe this is a bad thing to say, but I have a hard time when people call actors brave. I don’t really get that, because our job is to read something on a page."

In her latest film, Freeheld, Page plays Stacie Andree, one-half of a lesbian couple that achieved real-world fame when Andree’s partner Laurel was diagnosed with terminal cancers. On playing this character, she added: "It’s hard to say this, because the context of the film is so deeply tragic, but for me there was a deep sense of peace on set that I had not felt in a really long time, potentially since I was a teenager and first having these really beautiful, fortunate moments in films. There was something about being out, getting to play a gay character, and getting to play a woman who is so inspiring to me—it was such an amazing experience for me."