Elliot Page Is Three Things Transphobes Will Never Be: Happy, in a Hit Movie, and With a Girlfriend

Elliot Page walked the red carpet for the New York City premiere of The Odyssey earlier this week — much to the chagrin of right-wing transphobes sitting at home behind their keyboards. Unsurprisingly, Page enjoyed a seemingly lovely evening with his girlfriend, Overcompensating star Julia Shiplett, and a crew of friends including actress Peppermint, comedian James Tom, and ACLU attorney Chase Strangio. A hit movie, a beautiful partner, and a fun time with your pals? Looks like fun.Predictably, though, some people online proceeded to absolutely lose it over clips of him in the movie that were subsequently leaked. Without spoiling the Christopher Nolan adaptation of Homer’s epic, the leaked clips appear to show scenes in which Page’s character, Sinon, is dehydrated and scrambling around a beach in a way that is apparently activating to conservative transphobes. Many complained that Page appeared weak and not at all like Achilles — which is probably good, because Page isn’t playing the mythological Greek warrior at all.“how the fuck did they hurt achilles what,” one commenter wrote. The initial controversy began in May when it was rumored that Page would play Achilles in the upcoming Christopher Nolan adaptation of the Greek epic. Avowed transphobes like Elon Musk took issue with the casting, as did Newsmax anchor Rob Finnerty, who described Achilles as “most famous warrior in all of history” while criticizing Page. Mind you, Homer’s The Odyssey is a work of fiction and Achilles is a figure from Greek mythology — emphasis on the myth. There’s no such thing as “historical accuracy” when you are essentially adapting a glorified fable.In late June, it was confirmed that Page would actually be playing Sinon, another figure in Greek mythology who is described in Virgil’s Aeneid as a conniving trickster who convinces the Trojan army to let in the wooden horse with the Greek warriors inside. Remember how actors do this thing and it’s called ac