Elliot Page Jokes Growing Up in Canada Prepared Him for The Odyssey’s Harsh Filming Conditions

Filming Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey was quite a grueling experience. Star Matt Damon recently described it as “more like an expedition than a movie,” saying that everyone on the cast was “pushed to kind of the limit of what they could do.”Everyone, apparently, except for Elliot Page, who joked in an interview on The Daily Show this week that his Canadian upbringing prepared him for the harsh filming conditions of Nolan’s epic.“The challenging things were probably just weather and temperature,” Page told host Desi Lydic. “I’m lucky in that I grew up working in Canada as a kid, so I’m used to working in some pretty brutal temperatures.”“OK, take it easy, you have healthcare,” Lydic fired back, in one of the sit-down’s most humorous exchanges.The Odyssey was filmed in 91 days across six countries, including Iceland, where black sand beaches on the southern coast stood in for Hades in one of Page’s most pivotal scenes. Cast members have described it as the most difficult shoot of their lives, with one sequence tasking several actors with cramming inside an actual Trojan Horse.“When you’re in that horse, there’s nothing in there to make you feel comfortable,” Jon Bernthal told Polygon. “You don’t feel necessarily safe or okay.” (Hmm, spoken like a man who didn’t grow up in the Frozen North… Just kidding. Jon Bernthal could probably break my arm with a pinky.)Page, 39, can indeed boast quite a Canadian filmography before his breakout Hollywood roles. His earliest listed parts on IMDb, for example, are in the 1997 TV movie Pit Pony and its subsequent CBC follow-up series, both of which filmed in the actor’s birthplace of Nova Scotia — primarily on soundstages and sets, sure, but some real-world locations, too. (Meanwhile, at 10 years old, I was getting unbearably cold when it rained in Southern California.)But in seriousness, Page told Lydic that he managed to avoid much of the difficulties simply by only being in t