Elliot Page Says He’s Not Getting Acting Job Offers After The Odyssey

Despite having a memorable role in a box-office juggernaut, Elliot Page hasn’t reaped the benefits of The Odyssey’s gargantuan success. During an interview on the Wednesday, September 2 episode of On Film…with Kevin McCarthy, the Oscar-nominated actor said that he hasn’t been offered a role in the two months since its release.“Do you know what you’re doing next? Have you already started looking?” host Kevin McCarthy asked Page. “I imagine you’re getting a zillion calls after this movie.”“No, Kevin, I’m not,” Page responded. “If someone wants to call me …” “Elliot Page in every movie ever going forward,” McCarthy said. “I know I get some pushback for being Canadian, I don’t know what it’s about,” Page joked. (Later in the interview, Page joked a second time, “It’s a little tricky for me to get cast right now, I think that’s for pretty obvious reasons,” he said, in reference to him being transgender, adding, “The Canadian thing.”) McCarthy asked Page to clarify whether he had any projects coming up or wanted to take a break, and the actor emphatically answered that he wants to act. “No, I’d really love to do ideally good work,” Page said. “That’s what I’d love to do.” - YouTube www.youtube.com Page mentioned that while he loved working on Inception with Christopher Nolan, he was still ultimately uncomfortable in his own body pre-transition. But, he says, he feels better able to deliver now. “I am like, I feel like I could maybe, I could do some of my best work now,” he said. “I’m not having to, like, literally work through a performance that I don’t even quite know I’m doing to get to a performance.”He continued, “So, like, the experience of feeling, of walking onto a Chris set this time, versus in the ways of, like, it being cathartic. Like, when I wrapped on The Odyssey, I had a moment. There was a full-circle moment.Page’s performance as Sinon, a Greek warrior who convinces the