Despite starring in Christopher Nolan’s hit movie The Odyssey, Elliot Page is still waiting for his phone to ring.
The Oscar nominee, 39, played Greek soldier Sinon in Nolan’s fantasy epic, reuniting with the director 16 years after they collaborated on Inception. But in a new interview on the “On Film… With Kevin McCarthy” podcast, Page admitted that the film’s critical and commercial success hasn’t resulted in more acting offers.
Host Kevin McCarthy reasoned that Page must be “getting a zillion calls after this movie,” to which Page surprisingly responded, “No, Kevin, I’m not.”
“I’d really love to do, ideally, good work,” Page said on the Tuesday, September 1, podcast episode. “That’s what I’d love to do.”
Page also discussed his experience on the set of The Odyssey compared to filming Inception before his transition. The actor came out as a transgender man in December 2020.
“I had such a great time being in that movie … but I was also personally really uncomfortable,” he said of filming Inception. “I feel like, now, because that’s removed, I don’t have to deal with that when I’m acting, in my performances. I feel like I could do some of my best work now.”
“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,” he explained. “So, the experience of walking onto a Chris set this time … in ways of it being cathartic, when I wrapped on The Odyssey, I had a moment. There was a full-circle moment.”
Page appeared alongside a star-studded cast in The Odyssey, including Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway, Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, Charlize Theron, Zendaya and more.
However, before the movie’s release, Nolan received criticism from some on the political right for casting Page and Lupita Nyong’o, who played Helen of Troy.
In a July interview with the U.K.’s Telegraph newspaper, Nolan said he was unbothered by backlash.
“But look, these conversations that happen before people see the film — they’re always irrelevant, because no one having them knows what the film actually is yet,” he said. “All I can do is make the best film I possibly can in the most sincere way. It’s very different from how anyone else would do it, but that’s what adaptation is.”
Oscar winner Whoopi Goldberg also passionately defended Page’s casting on The View.
“You don’t like Elliot Page? Don’t go see the damn movie. Don’t do it. We will be OK if you don’t go see it,” she said in July.
“A lot of conservatives who see this are going to feel the same way [about Page’s casting]. That’s OK. But I don’t understand … why go see the movie?” Goldberg continued. “If you don’t wanna see it, then don’t go see it. Why do you care who’s cast in it? I don’t understand this idea that if we hate it, everybody must hate it.”
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