Elliot Page Hasn’t Gotten Any Offers Since The Odyssey, but Thinks He Could Do His Best Work Now

In The Odyssey, Elliot Page has a small but significant role as Sinon, the soldier sacrificed to sell the Greeks’ Trojan Horse scheme. The Oscar-nominated actor gives a great performance in what has become one of the year’s biggest movies, but in an interview with On Film… With Kevin McCarthy revealed that he has yet to see that lead to any new offers of work. “I get some pushback for being Canadian. I don’t know what it’s about,” he joked. “But if someone wants to call me…” The Odyssey is Page’s biggest film role to date as an out trans man, and earlier in the interview, McCarthy and Page had talked about Page’s first project with Christopher Nolan, Inception. Page reflected that “when you ask me about Ariadne, it’s like… I had such a great time being in that movie… but I was also personally really uncomfortable.” Nowadays, though, Page feels that “I’m not having to literally work through a performance that I don’t even quite know I’m doing to get to a performance. I feel now, because that’s removed and I don’t have to deal with that when I’m acting, I feel like I could maybe do some of my best work now.” He added that “just feeling more embodied and connected — knowing yourself m...